🌎 Countries Challenge

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🔐 Datastore:

Project is using MySQL as default datastore.
See config/datastores.js:

default: {
  adapter: 'sails-mysql',
  url: 'mysql://root@localhost:3306/challenge_countries',
},

Refer to Sails :: Waterline ORM for more info.

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🔌 Installation

• Run npm start which automatically...
  • runs ng serve to build and serve Angular on port 4200.
  • runs sails lift to lift Express (Sails.js) API on port 1337.

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♻️ Cron Strategy:

Cron runs every 24hs with node-cron. (every 20 seconds in this demo)

This analizes the differences between the existing data and the new one,
updating only what is necessary while ensuring no loss of data during the process.

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💂‍♂️ Security:

CORS is enabled, backend only accepts requests from http://localhost:4200.
See config/security.js:

cors: {
  allRoutes: true,
  allowOrigins: ["http://localhost:4200"],
  allowCredentials: true,
  allowRequestHeaders: "content-type, authorization"
}

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Other considerations:

• Filtering by name, capital, and/or continent are performed server-side.
• Pagination and ordering are handled client-side.

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👋 That would be it.