10 Minute Endpoint: Endpoint testing made easy

Created for the Linode x Hashnode Hackathon

About

Practice your HTTP requests or test and inspect your webhooks. See the data sent to your servers by third party services!

10 Minute Endpoint is an open-source service that generates a temporary endpoint for a developer to test and inspect HTTP requests sent to it, which can be useful when developing their APIs that may need certain fields of data.

Features

• Generates endpoints for anonymous users; no signup required.
• Displays logged data to the developer.
• Deletes data as quickly as possible.

Project Stack

• Prisma (MongoDB)
• Linode (Ubuntu 20.04)
• Express (NodeJS)
• Bulma (CSS)

Prerequisites

Mongodb

Either install MongoDB locally to your environment, or use one online (through Mongo Atlas for example)

Prisma

Prisma requires a replica set instead of standalone database.

Note - Run prisma generate after installing the packages to generate the MongoDB schemas internally.

Running and Deployment

1. Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/danidre14/10-minute-endpoint-nodejs.git

2. Set environment variables for the following (using the .env file, for example):
   • NODE_ENV
   • PORT
   • SESSION_SECRET
   • DATABASE_URL

Rename the .env.sample file to .env and use actual credentials obtained in the Prerequisites.

3. Install all dependencies:

cd /path/to/project
npm install
# or yarn install, or other depending on your package manager

4. Generate dev dependencies:

prisma generate

5. Run the project:

npm start

Open a browser and hit http://localhost:5000