vat-prod-db

This repo is used to publish the VAT database (DB) in the NPM registry. When VAT application is started locally, the application may pull the DB based off of dependencies in package.json.

Setup

Prerequisite

• New personal access token (PAT)
  1. Go to code.il2
  2. Click Add new token
  3. Give the token a name
  4. For Scope* select
     • api
     • read_api
     • read_repository
  5. Click Create personal access token
  6. Copy the newly created PAT NOTE: The token will be inaccessible afterwards if not copied right away.

Steps

1. Clone vat-db-npm repo to the same directory as vat-backend
   1. From vat-db-npm, click Code
   2. Click clipboard button next to URL
   3. Go to terminal
   4. Run git clone and paste in git URL from Step 1.2
   5. Follow authentication instructions NOTE: A password manager should be used to ensure the credentials are not saved into .git-credentials as plaintext. On the Mac, the keychain store may be used by running git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain (More info). NOTE: Use your repo1 access token to clone the repository
2. In terminal, run cd vat-db-npm
3. Run npm config set -- '//code.il2.dso.mil/api/v4/projects/4651/packages/npm/:_authToken' "PASTE_TOKEN_HERE_WITH_QUOTES"
   1. PASTE_TOKEN_HERE_WITH_QUOTES should be replaced with PAT created in Prerequisite
4. npm install

Manually Publishing New DB

1. Ensure NPM registry is setup (In Setup->Steps 3)
2. Update the version for @vat-db-npm/vat-db in the dependencies of package.json NOTE: The version for @vat-db-npm/vat-db is to the right of the colon. The older versions can be found here

	"dependencies": {
	    "@vat-db-npm/vat-db": "^0.0.142"
	}

1. To publish run npm publish