zapp-backend

Program info API for German public broadcasting services.

This is a small node.js server to get current programm information (start and end time, title, description, etc.) from many German public broadcasting services as JSON. It is used by the Android app Zapp

Getting started

1. You need node.js installed on your machine to run this project.
2. Check out the project using Git.
3. Run npm install inside the newly created directory.
4. Set PORT as an environment variable inside your console. Eg. PORT=3000 on linux or SET PORT=3000 on windows.
5. Run npm start.
6. Open your browser and head to http://localhost:3000/v1/shows/das_erste (or replace 3000 with your PORT value) to get program info for ARD.

Test

• Run npm test to run linting and basic function tests.
• Run npm lint to run jshint and check for code style errors.

Deployment

This app gets auto deployed via github action whenever a taged commit is pushed.

To deploy tag your commit using demantic versioning. Make sure to update the version in index.js accordingly.

How to use the docker image

docker run --name zapp-backend -p 80:3000 mediathekview/zapp-backend

Kubernetes

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: mediathekview
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: zapp-backend
  namespace: mediathekview

spec:
  ports:
    - name: http
      protocol: TCP
      port: 3000
  selector:
    app: zapp-backend
---
kind: Deployment
apiVersion: apps/v1
metadata:
  namespace: mediathekview
  name: zapp-backend
  labels:
    app: zapp-backend

spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: zapp-backend
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: zapp-backend
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: zapp-backend
          image: mediathekview/zapp-backend
          ports:
            - name: web
              containerPort: 3000
---
kind: Ingress
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
metadata:
  name: zapp-backend-ingress
  namespace: mediathekview

spec:
  rules:
    - host: api.zapp.mediathekview.de
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            backend:
              serviceName: zapp-backend
              servicePort: 3000