agarkra / covidcomm

Stay updated in the time of the coronavirus pandemic

CovidComm

A project for communication aid during the COVID-19 outbreak. Note that this project is made for the Twilio DEV community Hackathon. The following is the track being followed in this project:

COVID-19 Communications

Head over to the official user interface repository for CovidComm to look at it's features, demo, and installation. Head over to DEV to see the submission blog for this project.

Getting started

• Create a file called .env with the following content. You can configure it according to your own desired settings.

# JSON Web Token
JWT_SECRET="sajndaskdnsakdnaksndjs"

# Morgan logging level
LOGGING_FMT="combined"

# The full API URL being used for fetching news
INFO_API_URL= ""

# Calling CRONJOB time
CRON_DEFAULT_TIME="* * * 1 * *"

# Calling CRONJOB time for testing
CRON_TESTING_TIME="10 * * * * *"

# SALT for hashing, should be an integer
HASH_SALT=771

# Database URI
DB_URI="mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@<hostname>:<port>/<database_name>"

# Base URL
API_VERSION= "/api/v1"

# Account SID
TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID= ""

# Auth token for programmable voice API
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN= ""

# Given phone number by twilio
TWILIO_PHONE_NUMBER= ""

# A verified phone number (for testing)
TWILIO_VERIFIED_NUMBER= ""

# Service SID for Verifying phone numbers on the fly
TWILIO_SERVICE_SID=""

• Run the following commands to get started:

# Install dependancies
npm i

# Compile typescript and run server in filewatch mode
npm run dev