Anolet API Internal Documentation

Setting up for the first time

Setting up Doppler

Signing up for Doppler

All Anolet services use Doppler to manage environment variables. To get access to Anolet's Doppler workplace, sign up to Doppler with your @anolet.com email. You will be prompted to create your own Doppler workplace. Click "Skip" located in the top right. Then, ask Rus to grant you permissions. You will be added as a collaborator and will be able to view secrets for dev.

Downloading Doppler CLI

Run the following commands:

mkdir -p $HOME/bin
curl -Ls --tlsv1.2 --proto "=https" --retry 3 https://cli.doppler.com/install.sh | sh -s -- --install-path $HOME/bin

Now, verify the Doppler CLI was installed by checking its version:

doppler -v

Authenticating Doppler CLI

Now, you will have to authenticate Doppler CLI with your Doppler account by running:

doppler login

You will only have to do this part once for all of Anolet, so you will not need to reinstall Doppler CLI or relogin if you are working on the API.

Linking Doppler

Now, you'll need to configure this folder to use the Doppler configuration for the dev@client project:

doppler setup

You'll see a message that says "Use default settings from repo config file (...)?". Answer yes. You have now configured Doppler.

If you want to hange any environment variables for testing purposes, create a branched config.

Installing packages

Install all the NPM packages by running the following command:

npm i

Starting in development mode

Start the server

Start the node server with the following command:

npm run dev

This will automatically restart the server when server changes are made.