A GraphQL Magic: The Gathering API Server

• Getting Started
• Installation
• Running the Server Locally
• Running the Server in Production
• Resetting the Database
• License Information
• Prior Art
• Further Reading

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Before you start, make sure you have a working NodeJS environment, with NPM 3. Preferably use Yarn instead of NPM for installation of packages to ensure that you'll use exactly the same dependencies as the project.

From the project folder, execute the following command:

npm install

Or if you are using Yarn, execute this command instead:

yarn

Once installation of project dependencies completes, run the following command to set up your local development environment:

npm run setup

First this will create a default .env file in which you can define various environment variables such as your MySQL connection details, should you like to use it instead of SQLite3. .env is used to store sensitive information you do not want to commit.

Second, it will create a new database file under src/scribe.sqlite to serve as your default local development database. It will then run a set of Knex.js migrations to set up the default database schema.

Your development environment is now ready to go!

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To start the server, simply run the following command:

npm start

The server should now be listening on port 1337. To access GraphiQL and begin exploring the API documentation, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:1337/graphiql in your browser of choice.

Next, you can begin to populate your newly created database by running the following in a second terminal window:

npm run populate

This will populate the database with data from the Magic: The Gathering API and download all card images to src/images.

Please note: populate may take many hours to fully run! You can cancel the script at any time during execution. It is recommended that you at least allow it to run until some cards from the first set are added to the database in order to have a decent amount of seed data to play with. Execution may run faster using MySQL instead of SQlite3. Please refer to Running the Server in Production for more information.

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If you would like to run the server in "production" mode, you will first need to install and setup MySQL on your local machine. Once complete, set your connection details in .env. Scribe uses this file to configure the database connection, otherwise it will use defaults defined in src/config/server.config.js.

To reset your production database schema, run:

npm run resetdb:prod

Warning: this will first attempt to drop any database named 'scribe'.

When completed, you can then run the server in production using:

npm run start:prod

To switch back to development, simply run:

npm run start:dev

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To delete all the data in the database and start from scratch, run one of the following commands:

Development (Sqlite3):

npm run resetdb

Production (MySQL):

npm run resetdb:prod

This is useful when making changes to the database schema, the populate script, or simply when you need to clear out existing data.

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This application uses images and data that are copyright of Wizards of the Coast (http://magic.wizards.com/en)

Scribe is made available under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)

Attribution is greatly appreciated! Please feel free to fork the project and submit pull requests.

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Scribe would not be possible without the fantastic work of Andrew Backes @adback03 on his Magic: The Gathering API project.

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