Absinthe Technical Assessment | Xinusu

Overview

This is a fully self-contained fullstack project with a Hasura GraphQL backend, a Node.js Express server, a Postgres DB, and a Nextjs + RadixUI frontend.

ENV Setup

You will need to create a .env file in the root directory of the project and add the following environment variables. You can use openssl to generate the secret.

Please see the .env.example for of the .env, it should look like this,

HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_SECRET=<your-hasura-admin-secret>
EXPRESS_API_URL=http://express-server:3000

The Postgres connection string is already set in the docker-compose for sake of the exercise. Obviously, in a production environment, you would want to use a more secure method of storing the connection string.

Hasura Setup

You will need to download the hasura-cli from here if you haven't already.

Once you can see the console, apply the migrations + the reload the metadata by running this command from the hasura directory:

hasura metadata apply --envfile ../.env; hasura migrate apply --envfile ../.env; hasura metadata reload --envfile ../.env

You can run the hasura console by going into the hasura directory and running:

hasura console --envfile ../.env