Face-Recognition-App-API

Built using Node.js as an API endpoint for the main Face-Recognition-App containing the front-end faceapp.sivaramp.com

It provides all the functionality that the front end is expecting on fetching data from the Clarifai API.

It takes care of the various functions associated with different requests and routes the requests and responses accordingly. It is also built with security in focus so as to ensure no sensitive information is exposed in requests or responses or even the console.

Steps to start:

1. Clone this repo

2. Go to Face-Recognition-App-API This is the main project folder for the front end.

3. Run npm install This will install all the dependencies.

4. You must add your own API key in the controllers/image.js file to connect to Clarifai.

You can grab Clarifai API key here

5. Run npm start This will run the server, on port 3000

6. Go to Face-Recognition-App & Clone the repo. This is the Main App i.e. the front-end for the application

7. Run npm install This will install all the dependencies.

8. Then run npm start Press Y when prompted for using another port (Since 3000 is default for create-react-app module and it is occupied) It will use the port 3001

Configuring Database:

** Make sure you use postgreSQL instead of mySQL for this code base.

1. Create a database face-recog

2. Create table users and login, with following structure: (Generated using \d tb_name in psql)

                                   Table "public.users"
   

Column	Type	Modifiers
id	integer	not null default nextval('users_id_seq'::regclass)
name	character varying(100)
email	text	not null
entries	bigint	default 0
joined	timestamp without time zone	not null

Indexes: "users_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "users_email_key" UNIQUE CONSTRAINT, btree (email)

                             Table "public.login"

Column	Type	Modifiers
id	integer	not null default nextval('login_id_seq'::regclass)
hash	character varying(100)	not null
email	text	not null

Indexes: "login_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "login_email_key" UNIQUE CONSTRAINT, btree (email)

3. Enter user and password for the database in server.js

Modules used:

1. clarifai
2. bcrypt-nodejs
3. body-parser
4. cors
5. express
6. knex
7. pg
8. nodemon (devDependency)