README.md

Node.js using (Express, node-postgres)

Created this stack so we can try and realize whatever we have to do for Sumting.

Uses Node.js as server, Express to create API endpoints using the MVC model without the view part as of right now and node-postgres to create a connection between the local/remote PostgreSQL server and our Node.js server.

Setup

Installation

Installation is done using:

$ npm install

To run the server use:

$ npm run dev

.env

The .env file consists of these variables. Rename .env.example to .env to use this in development. Write the values down without quotes.

EXPRESS_PORT = 'Express port'
PGSQL_USERNAME = 'Username'
PGSQL_HOST = 'Localhost'
PGSQL_DB = 'Database name'
PGSQL_PASSWORD = 'Password'
PGSQL_PORT = 'PostgreSQL port'

LISTEN/NOTIFY

To use the LISTEN/NOTIFY commands we have to create a function and trigger first in the database.

Function

-- This creates the function with the pg_notify command
-- It converts and sends the row as a json object.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.notify_event()
   RETURNS trigger
   LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS $function$
BEGIN
   PERFORM pg_notify('event', row_to_json(NEW)::text);
   RETURN NULL;
END;
$function$

 

Trigger

-- This creates the trigger. This statement adds a trigger
-- on each row of the table users and triggers when that
-- row updates, a new row gets inserted or deleted.
CREATE TRIGGER event_trigger
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE
ON public.users
FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE notify_event();