Manage Cases

To run the application locally please make sure you follow the prerequisite task of Setting up Secrets locally as documented below.

Then follow:

Startup the Node service locally

1. Make sure you have local-development.json within /config, if you do not you can get this from an XUI team member.
2. Start the Node service locally using: export IDAM_SECRET=* && export S2S_SECRET=* && export NODE_CONFIG_DIR=../config && export NODE_CONFIG_ENV=development && export ALLOW_CONFIG_MUTATIONS=1 && npm run start:node

Explanation:

NODE_CONFIG_DIR tells the machine where the configuration for the Node application is located. NODE_CONFIG_ENV=development sets the machine so that the config that is used is local-development.json

@see https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config/wiki/Configuration-Files

Startup the Angular service locally

Run yarn start:ng to start up the UI.

Running unit tests

Run yarn test to execute the unit tests on both the Angular and Node layers. Note that yarn test is run on the build pipelines.

Linting

Run yarn lint to execute all linting across both Angular and Node layers. Note that this is run on the build pipelines. Run yarn lint:node to execute note linting.

PACT

Run yarn test-pact to run the PACT tests.

Run yarn pact-stub to run the PACT stub server.

Branches, Environment and Deployment methods used

Branches, Environment and Deployment methods used

 |---------------------------------------|
 | Branch | Environment | Deployment via |
 |---------------------------------------|
 | local  | development | -              |
 | PR     | preview     | Jenkins        |
 | Master | aat         | Jenkins        |
 | Master | aat         | Flux           |
 | Master | ithc        | Flux           |
 | Master | production  | Flux           |
 |---------------------------------------|

Path to configuration

The application should point to the configuration folder that contains the .json configuration files. There should only ever be three files within this folder:

custom-environmental-variables.json - Allows configuration values to be set by the machines environmental values. Through the Jenkins pipelines they are overwritten by values.*.template.yaml files for the Preview and AAT enviroments. On AKS they are only overwritten by the values.yaml file default.json - Should contain Production configuration values as per Reform standards. local-development.json - Is used for local development

Adding new files into /config should be avoided, as it increases complexity.

It increases complexity if we were to add files to /config as we already have the Preview and AAT Jenkins enviromental values contained within values.preview.template.yaml and values.aat.template.yaml.

Setting up Secrets locally (Required)

You need to setup secrets locally before you run the project. Why? - When you push this application up through AKS deployed through Flux to AAT, ITHC and Prod, the application will take in the secrets on these environments.

The developer needs to set these up locally, so that the developer can see any issues early in the development process, and not when the application is placed up onto the higher AKS environments.

To setup the secrets locally do the following:

Note that Mac OS Catalina introduced a new feature that overlaps and reinforces the filesystem, therefore you will not be able to make changes in the root directory of your file system, hence there are different ways to setup secrets, Pre Catalina and Post Catalina, note that the Post Catalina way should work for all operating system, but I have yet to try this.

####MAC OS - Pre Catalina

1. Create a Mount point on your local machine
   Create the folder: /mnt/secrets/rpx
2. In this folder we create a file per secret. ie. We create the file postgresql-admin-pw (no extension). Within the file we have one line of characters which is the secret.

####MAC OS - Post Catalina

1. Create a Mount point on your local machine within the Volumes folder
   Create the folder: /Volumes/mnt/secrets/rpx
2. In this folder we create a file per secret. ie. We create the file postgresql-admin-pw (no extension). Within the file we have one line of characters which is the secret.
3. If you want to test the secrets locally override the default mountPoint with the following additional option added to .addTo ie. propertiesVolume.addTo(secretsConfig, { mountPoint: '/Volumes/mnt/secrets/' });

Note that this is connected into the application via the following pieces of code:

  keyVaults:
    rpx:
      secrets:
        - postgresql-admin-pw
        - appinsights-instrumentationkey-tc

which in turn uses propertiesVolume.addTo()

How Application Configuration (Node Config) Works

The application picks up the configuration from the /config .json files.

The references within .json ie. production.json are set by the /charts/xui-terms-and-conditions/values.yaml file ie. POSTGRES_SERVER_PORT is set by POSTGRES_SERVER_PORT within values.yaml.

HOWEVER if there is a values..template.yaml file it will override the values within the values.yaml file, BUT this only happens on the JENKINS pipelines, where values.*.template.yaml are available to the build pipeline.

AKS uses a .json file in /config and the values.yaml from within charts/xui-terms-and-conditions ONLY.

AKS does not use values.aat.template.yaml and values.previews.template.yaml

DO NOT create a new .json file within /config as this increases the complexity of configuration.

The 3rd party Node config package selects the file within /config based on NODE_ENV which is always production on all environments, due to Reform standards, this does not change on different environments, it is always NODE_ENV=production

If production.json is not within /config, it's not in the case of Manage Cases, it will use the files in the order specified by @see https://github.com/lorenwest/node-config/wiki/Configuration-Files

We DO NOT need to leverage NODE_CONFIG_ENV on the Manage Cases project - All application code be written so that it's not environment specific!

Note about secrets ie.

  keyVaults:
    rpx:
      secrets:
        - postgresql-admin-pw
        - appinsights-instrumentationkey-tc

are set within the values.yaml and there should be NO REFERENCE to them within any /config/*.json file.

The application pulls out the secrets directly using propertiesVolume.addTo()

Issues and Solutions

Property 'cookies' does not exist on type 'EnhancedRequest' - you will need to make sure @types/express-session is added ie. yarn add @types/express-session

The following is legacy readme.

Code scaffolding

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Build

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Running end-to-end tests

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

Running Consumer Driven Contract tests (pact)

Run yarn test-pact to execute the Pact tests For publishing the pacts to broker execute yarn publish-pact

Integration Documentation

https://tools.hmcts.net/confluence/display/EUI/EXUI+Low+Level+Design

Further help

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go and check out the Angular CLI README.

Logger errors and warnings

Extended version of script below:

(https://robferguson.org/blog/2017/09/09/a-simple-logging-service-for-angular-4/)

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