You need the Timezonedb API key to make the backend work

Once you got the API key, make a folder name oauthTokens

And inside oauthTokens make a JSON file named token.json

And inside the token.json the object should look something like this

{
    "timezonedb": "<API KEY>",
    "github": "<API KEY with the permission of repo>"
}

Your directory should look something like that

oauthTokens/
└── token.json

Or you can set an environment variable named TIMEZONEDB and the vluae will be your <TOKEN>

Once everythign is set up, just run yarn start or npm start

And the serer by default will run on port 8080

Or if you already set your PORT ENV variable, it will use the PORT instead

By default, the server will look for your current IP address and find the correct location

GET | /

http://localhost:8080/

But you can also input manually

GET | /<LOCATION>
http://localhost:8080/London

GET | /api/<LOCATION>
http://localhost:8080/api/London

If you didn't pass in the LOCATION, the API will look for your current location via your public IP address

The API return come with different data set

And the current support one will be

• JSON
• XML

To fetch XML(or any other data set in the future)

GET | /api/<LOCATION>
http://localhost:8080/api/London?type=xml

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