Allows internal staff to administer prison visit bookings system.

The easiest way to run the app is to use docker compose to create the service and all dependencies.

docker compose pull

docker compose up

The app requires:

• hmpps-auth - for authentication
• redis - session store and token caching
• prison-register - look up names of prisons from Prison codes
• visit-scheduler - all VSiP admin operations

It is simplest to use HMPPS Auth dev, in which case no dependencies need to be started locally.

Install dependencies using npm install, ensuring you are using node v20.x and npm v10.x

Note: Using nvm (or fnm), run nvm install --latest-npm within the repository folder to use the correct version of node, and the latest version of npm. This matches the engines config in package.json and the CircleCI build config.

Using credentials from the dev namespace, create a .env local settings file

HMPPS_AUTH_URL=https://sign-in-dev.hmpps.service.justice.gov.uk/auth
HMPPS_AUTH_EXTERNAL_URL=https://sign-in-dev.hmpps.service.justice.gov.uk/auth
NOMIS_AUTH_URL=https://sign-in-dev.hmpps.service.justice.gov.uk/auth
MANAGE_USERS_API_URL=https://manage-users-api-dev.hmpps.service.justice.gov.uk
NODE_ENV=development

# Use credentials from the dev namespace for API and SYSTEM client
API_CLIENT_ID=clientid
API_CLIENT_SECRET=clientsecret
SYSTEM_CLIENT_ID=clientid
SYSTEM_CLIENT_SECRET=clientsecret

BOOKER_REGISTRY_API_URL="https://hmpps-prison-visit-booker-registry-dev.prison.service.justice.gov.uk"

PRISONER_CONTACT_REGISTRY_API_URL="https://prisoner-contact-registry-dev.prison.service.justice.gov.uk"

PRISON_REGISTER_API_URL="https://prison-register-dev.hmpps.service.justice.gov.uk"

VISIT_SCHEDULER_API_URL="https://visit-scheduler-dev.prison.service.justice.gov.uk"

And then, to build the assets and start the app with nodemon:

npm run start:dev

npm run lint

npm run test

For local running, start a test db and wiremock instance by:

docker compose -f docker-compose-test.yml up

Then run the server in test mode by:

npm run start-feature (or npm run start-feature:dev to run with nodemon)

And then either, run tests in headless mode with:

npm run int-test

Or run tests with the cypress UI:

npm run int-test-ui

Some TypeScript types are imported via the Open API (Swagger) docs, e.g. from the Visit Scheduler, etc.

These are stored in ./server/@types/, for example ./server/@types/visit-scheduler-api.d.ts. There are also some corresponding files such as ./server/data/visitSchedulerApiTypes.ts that contain the particular imported types that are actually used in the project.

For example, to update types for the Visit Scheduler use the API docs URL from Swagger and the appropriate output filename:

npx openapi-typescript https://visit-scheduler-dev.prison.service.justice.gov.uk/v3/api-docs --output ./server/@types/visit-scheduler-api.d.ts

The downloaded file will need tidying (e.g. single rather than double quotes, etc):

• npm run lint-fix should tidy most of the formatting
• there may be some remaining errors about empty interfaces; these can be fixed be either removing the line or putting // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-empty-interface before.

After updating the types, running the TypeScript complier across the project (npx tsc) will show any issues that have been caused by the change.

To download and update all the API types and tidy up the files, run:

./bin/update-types.sh