add gzip response compression, update restify (was giving error 444)

vacuumlabs / adalite-backend-service

Icarus, a reference implementation for a lightweight wallet developed by the IOHK Engineering Team.

Apache License 2.0

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Closed refi93 closed 5 years ago

refi93 commented 5 years ago

Compressed responses are much smaller, therefore clients have to download less data (you can try it e.g. in the browser with the "api/txs/last" call)
Added .env.example file which can be copied and used as a template to fill in the env variables values
I noticed that the server crashes if no slack token is set, so I fixed that as well

closes #27