Goldenage

Goldenage is a full-stack, online activation service for the elderly, made for a course. The client for this project is a group of International Business students. Implementation of the project is done by a group of three software engineering students.

Software development team:

• Juho Björkman
• Valtteri Huuskonen
• Jyri Pappinen

Development instructions

Tools and Software needed

• NodeJS v20
• Docker
• Git
• MySQL CLI tools mysql and mysqldump[^1]

Run commands

Backend

• docker compose up -d in the root of the project to run the database and database management console containers
• Navigate to the backend folder cd backend
• cp .env.example .env to create the environment variable file
  • Replace JWT_KEY with a string of your choosing
• npm install to install all necessary Node modules
• npx dbmate up to run all pending migrations to the database
• npm run start to run the backend
• npm run dev to start a development server with Nodemon

Frontend

• Navigate to the frontend folder cd frontend
• cp .env.example .env to create the environment variable file
• npm install to install all necessary Node modules
• npm run dev to start a local development server

Run tests

Backend

• npm run test or npm run test:clean to run backend tests

Frontend

• npm run test or npm run test:run to run unit tests with Vitest
• npm run test:e2e to run end-to-end tests with Cypress

Deployed website

The website is deployed on Render. The site is hosted on free-tier instances which shut down with inactiviy so the first signup or login will take a long time.

Frontend: https://onlinestore-frontend-stg.onrender.com

Backend (healthcheck): https://onlinestore-backend-stg.onrender.com/healthz

[^1]: mysql is used as part of inserting test data when running backend tests locally using npm run test:clean and mysqldump is used for exporting the database schema.