api-service

This is a simple Express app hosted on an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 server used by peterwalker.xyz/bookapp to query Google Books Api.

peterwalker.xyz/bookapp fetches this api key by calling https://api.peterwalker.xyz/api/key.

This is important because Single Page Applications expose any secrets they are built with.

I use certbot to create the https certifications

sudo yum install -y certbot

sudo certbot certonly --standalone -d api.peterwalker.xyz

I run this process in the background of my EC2 server using sudo pm2 start server.js

Local dev

1. Get an API key for the Google Books API here
2. Set it in .env export API_KEY=
3. npm install
4. NODE_ENV=development npm start
5. Now this server is running on port 3001 http://localhost:3001
6. Set up local dev for the bookapp here