Attendance System backend services.

The main technologies used in the development of this application are Node.js for the server-side logic, MongoDB for the data persistance, Amazon Rekognition for the face recognition, Amazon S3 for the cloud object storage, and Heroku for the deployment.

First things first: you must properly set the following environment variables:

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID (Amazon AWS Access Key)
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY (Amazon AWS Secret Key)
• AWS_REGION (Amazon AWS Region)
• SENDGRID_API_KEY (Sendgrid Api Key)
• SUPPORT_EMAIL
• FROM_EMAIL
• RESET_PASSWORD_TEMPLATEID (Sendgrid Dynamic Email Template Id for Reset Password)
• VERIFY_EMAIL_TEMPLATEID (Sendgrid Dynamic Email Template Id for Email Verification)
• JWT (JSON Web Token)
• MONGOURI (MongoDB URL)
• NODE_OPTIONS=--max_old_space_size=2560
• PORT=3000

Step 1:

Download or clone this repo by using the link below:

https://github.com/merthankavak/attendance_system/

for ssh

git clone [email protected]:merthankavak/attendance_system.git

Step 2:

Go to project root and execute the following command in console to get the required dependencies:

$ npm install

Step 3:

To run this project all we have to do is run this command

$ npm start