1. Install packages

   npm install
   

2. Configure DB. Create .env file in this format:

   NODE_ENV=development
   DB_NAME=name
   DB_USER=user
   DB_PASSWORD=pass
   DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
   SECRET=
   TOKEN_SECRET=
   

   SECRET and TOKEN_SECRET preferably shoud be randomly generated hashes.

   Optional fields

   ADMIN_LOGIN=
   ADMIN_MAIL=
   ADMIN_PASS=
   BUILT_IN_GZIP=
   TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME=
   

   TOKEN_EXPIRATION_TIME defaults to 1h, ADMIN_* fields are used in a seeder, which creates an admin user for the system.

3. Init CLI

   npx sequelize-cli init
   

4. Create DB

   npx sequelize-cli db:create --charset utf8mb4 --collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci
   

5. Migrate

   npx sequelize-cli db:migrate
   

To clear and re-migrate DB, use:

npm run refresh

Create admin user with data specified in .env:

npm run seed

To run project with nodemon:

npm run dev

• AdminJS Docs
• Sequalize Docs

• Move admin stuff to route
• Add rate limiter or express-brute and apply to the some auth routes
• Experiment with gzip
• Admin auth
• Secret in env
• Add option to disable gzip from .env
• List all possible .env fields in README
• Look at helmet
• Move to fastest-validator
• Add a cron job to empty invalidated tokens table
• Document all routes
• Move server from app.js