MarketAlert

The purpose of this project is to build a web application that enables subscribing to notifications when new products are published on various ad based marketplaces. The MVP will be only based on OLX.ba

Setup

Setup with npm commands

1. Install packages
   npm install

2. Run setup script
   npm run setup
   this will create and run postgres image and then execute migrations

3. Run app
   npm start to run app without restart on changes or
   npm run start-mon to run app with automatic restart on code change

Manual setup

1. Create postgres docker image
   docker build -t marketalerts .

2. Run postgres image with
   docker run --name pg_marketalerts -d -p 5432:5432 marketalerts

3. Install packages
   npm install

4. Run migrations from app folder
   npm run migrate or npx sequelize db:migrate

5. Run app
   npm start or npm run start-mon to run app with automatic restart on code change

AWS SES

- AWS SES credentials are handled with env vratiables
- Notification emails are sent in batches of 50, by using SES templates
- Make sure that you are using different templates for different envirorments