CheckFirst

Don't Know? CheckFirst. A tool to build eligibility checkers and calculators for Singapore Government policies

Quick Start

git clone git@github.com:opengovsg/checkfirst
cd checkfirst
npm ci
npm run dev

Codebase Orientation - Server

Environment Variables

As defined in src/server/config

Entrypoints

• src/server/index.ts for Express.js
• src/server/serverless/{api, static}.ts for deployments into API Gateway + AWS Lambda

Modules

• api/ - API routing to authentication, CRUD operations
• auth/ - Authentication layer
• bootstrap/ - Factory function to build the Express.js application for the backend
• checker/ - CRUD operations layer to manage checkers created by the user
• models/ - Sequelize models
• utils/ - miscellaneous functions

Codebase Orientation - Client

Entrypoint

• src/client/index.tsx - mounts src/client/App.tsx onto document

Possible Issues with Running Code + Solutions

Connection with postgres database

By default SQLite DB is used. For other available environments refer to: src/server/database/config/config.ts or edit the dialect for development environment to postgres

SQLite table not found

This may occur if the SQlite tables created is in the wrong format or required tables are not created

Add await sequelize.sync({force:true} to the server/database/index file after await sequelize.authenticate(). This will force all the tables in to be dropped and created again with the correct tables.

A potential long term fix for issues related to SQLite is to replace SQLite with a docker-compose environment for usage during development.

Performing Migrations

This section explains the steps required to perform remote database schema migrations using a bastion SSH instance.

• Ensure that your current IP address has been whitelisted in the bastion instance security group on AWS
• Set up a local port-forwarding service by running the following in a terminal window: ssh -L 5433:<DB_HOST>:5432 <SSH_TUNNEL_USER>@<SSH_TUNNEL_HOST> -i <PATH_TO_SSH_HOST_PEM_FILE>
• Set your NODE_ENV environment variable to either staging or production
• Set your DATABASE_URL environment variable to the following postgres://<DB_USER>:<DB_PASS>@127.0.0.1:5433/<DB_NAME>
• Ensure that the env vars are loaded correctly
• Perform the up-migration by running the following in another terminal window: npx sequelize db:migrate; perform the down-migration by running npx sequelize db:migrate:undo
• Verify that your migrations were completed correctly by checking that the name of the migration exists in the SequelizeMeta table in the database