DMVeasy-api

Welcome to DMVeasy, the newest way to make your day a little easier. It’s an easy way to make sure all your paperwork is in order before heading to the DMV! All you have to do is sign up, submit photos of all your required documents and fill out one form. After you’ve uploaded all of this information a DMV employee will make sure everything is in order before approving your appointment. Never get sent home for more paperwork from the DMV again!

Table Of Contents

• Description
• Example Code
• Technology Used
• Setting up for the Application
• Main Features
• Features in Progress
• Contact Information
• Link to Frontend Repo

Description

This API is fullfilling all the needs of saving the documentation needed in order to renew a drivers license. There is one express route setup to receive all the information that goes into the PDF then send that data to Anvil, which returns raw binary. The server is then able to take the raw binary and upload it as a PDF to Firebase Storage.

The other functionality written into the codebase mostly sets up the Cloud functions. With these functions you can upload and get images from Firebase Storage. You can also signin/up users through Firebase Authentication. Finally you can update the users collection in the Firestore to keep track of any additional information about a specific user that you need.

Example Code

This function allows you to dynamically update a user in the users collection as needed.

  exports.updateUser = functions.https.onRequest((request, response) => {
    cors(request, response, () => {

        const userId = request.body.userId;
        
        const userInformation = {};

        for ( let info in request.body ) {
            if ( info !== "userId") {
                userInformation[info] = request.body[info];
            };
        };

        let userRef = db.collection('users').doc(userId);
        if ( userRef ) {
            userRef.update(userInformation);
        } else {
            response.send("User not found");
        };

        response.send("User updated");
    });
});

This function signs up users into Firebase auth and adds them to the users collection.

   exports.signUpWithEmailPassword = functions.https.onRequest((request,response) =>{
    cors(request, response, () => {
        const newUser = {
            id: request.body.uid,
            email: request.body.email,
            password: request.body.password,
        };

        let userId;
        
        db.doc(`/users/${newUser.id}`).get()
        .then((doc) => {
            if(doc.exists) {
                return response.json({ message: 'this user has been created' });
            } else {
                return firebase.auth().createUserWithEmailAndPassword(newUser.email, newUser.password);
            }
        })
        .then((data) => {
            userId = data.user.uid;
            createUser(userId, newUser.email);
            return data.user.getIdToken();
            })
        .then((token) => {
            response.send({token: token, userId: userId});
        }).catch((error) => {
            response.send({errors: error});
        });
    });
});

Technology Used

• Nodejs
• Firebase Storage
• Firestore
• Firebase Auth
• Cloud Functions

Setting up to run locally

run npm install

then to start the node server with nodemon npm start

then run firebase serve to start the firebase server

Main Features

• Holds functionality for cloud functions
• Upload files to Firebase Storage
• Authenticate users through Firebase Auth
• Store user data in Firestore
• Route set up to handle talking with Anvil API in order to generate filled PDFs

Features in Progress

• Create special access for DMV employees

Contact Information

• Tiffany Kanjanabout
• Junior Medina
• Music Meier
• Kyle Trahan

Link to Frontend Repo

https://github.com/sydneygold/dmveasy-frontend