Meeting Planner Backend

Meeting Planner helps you find the best time to schedule a meeting across several timezones. It's based on the availibity of all participants for specific days.

• Documentation
• Frontend

Backend architecture

• API endpoints
• Database design
• Flowchart

Backend installation

1 | Create a database on Postgres

Any up to date postgres should work. You will need the following informations:

• username
• password
• hostname
• database

2 | Create and/or configure an .env file

• Create a .env file at the root of the backend folder
• Replace all variables noted with $ below, and save it to the .env file

NODE_ENV=development // This can't be changed for now
PORT=$port_number
DATABASE_URL=postgres://$db_user:$db_user_password@$hostname:5432/$db_name
JWT_SECRET=$long_random_characters

3 | Installation of packages (NodeJS needs to be installed)

• npm i

Migrate tables to database

• npx knex migrate:latest

Seed database with dummy content (optional)

Running this will add some users and meetings.

• npx knex seed:run

List of users

Liza	Emile	Jack	Cynthia	Celine
liza@example.com	emile@example.com	jack@example.com	cynthia@example.com	celine@example.com
liza-password	emile-password	jack-password	cynthia-password	celine-password