The easiest way to run the app is to use docker compose to create the service and all dependencies.
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up
The app requires:
- hmpps-auth - for authentication
- redis - session store and token caching
To start the main services excluding the example typescript template app:
docker compose up --scale=app=0
Install dependencies using npm install, ensuring you are using node v18.x and npm v9.x
Note: Using nvm (or fnm), run nvm install --latest-npm within the repository folder to use the correct version of node, and the latest version of npm. This matches the engines config in package.json and the CircleCI build config.
And then, to build the assets and start the app with nodemon:
npm run start:dev
npm run lint
npm run test
For local running, start a test db, redis, and wiremock instance by:
docker compose -f docker-compose-test.yml up
Then run the server in test mode by:
npm run start-feature (or npm run start-feature:dev to run with nodemon)
And then either, run tests in headless mode with:
npm run int-test
Or run tests with the cypress UI:
npm run int-test-ui
A changelog for the service is available here
The template project has implemented some scheduled checks to ensure that key dependencies are kept up to date.
If these are not desired in the cloned project, remove references to check_outdated job from .circleci/config.yml