Andrew Dev Notes

Steps to First Successful Deploy

0. Attempting to use Dockerfile to build and deploy (which uses yarn run production):
1. The first failure when attempting to deploy was in runProduction.sh, where I didn't specify any github credentials for the settings file
   • To resolve this issue, I need to specify a valid settings file to the build.js script. EA & LW seem to do this by cloning an encrypted Credential file stored publicly on github. Which is encrypted using $TRANSCRYPT_SECRET
   • For the purpose of testing, I'm just going to use the settings.json file. All required env variables will be put in .env.example questions:
     • What is the structure of the ForumCredentials repository, and what is the structure of the .env file (or environment config in general) used by most developers?
2. Another error was no MONGO_URL in the environment, but this is pretty easy to solve, just add one.
   • we added dotEnv to load environment variables locally
3. Another error might be that ports 3000 and 3001 were not exposed?
4. Deploy successful!

Steps to removing obvious site errors

1. "GraphQLError: Field error: value is not an instance of Date", on the RecentDiscussionFeed, which is a MixedTypeFeed, and requires a 'cutoff'. The 'cutoff' value does not seem to be a Date, which is required by the schema?
2. Investigating further:
   • It appears that the RecentDiscussionFeed Query returns data and an error (the above error), but for some reason, when using breakpoint, the data from the useQuery call is not actually given to the MixedFeedType component, it has error but data remains undefined. This doesn't make sense because when executing the same API call against the server directly (using GraphiQL), both data and error are returned.
   • MixedTypeFeed, line 121