FACT Admin

Front end admin interface for the Find a Court or Tribunal Service.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Running the application
  • Running with Docker
• Developing
  • Local environment
  • Code style
  • Running the tests
  • Security
    • CSRF prevention
    • Helmet
  • Healthcheck
• License

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Running the application requires the following tools to be installed in your environment:

• Node.js v12.0.0 or later
• yarn
• Docker

Running the application.

Install dependencies by executing the following command:

$ yarn install

Bundle:

$ yarn webpack

Run:

$ yarn start:dev

The applications's home page will be available at https://localhost:3300

Developing

Local environment

docker-compose up
yarn start:dev

Code style

We use ESLint alongside sass-lint

Running the linting with auto fix:

$ yarn lint --fix

Running the tests

This template app uses Jest as the test engine. You can run unit tests by executing the following command:

$ yarn test

Here's how to run functional tests (the template contains just one sample test):

$ yarn test:routes

Running accessibility tests:

$ yarn test:a11y

Make sure all the paths in your application are covered by accessibility tests (see a11y.ts).

Environment Variables

To run the functional tests, you will need to add environment variables that denote the OAUTH credentials. Refer to the HMCTS confluence page, admin portal section, for more information on how to set these.

Security

CSRF prevention

Cross-Site Request Forgery prevention has already been set up in this template, at the application level. However, you need to make sure that CSRF token is present in every HTML form that requires it. For that purpose you can use the csrfProtection macro, included in this template app. Your njk file would look like this:

{% from "macros/csrf.njk" import csrfProtection %}
...
<form ...>
  ...
    {{ csrfProtection(csrfToken) }}
  ...
</form>
...

Helmet

This application uses Helmet, which adds various security-related HTTP headers, to the responses. Apart from default Helmet functions, following headers are set:

• Referrer-Policy
• Content-Security-Policy

There is a configuration section related with those headers, where you can specify:

• referrerPolicy - value of the Referrer-Policy header

Here's an example setup:

json
    "security": {
      "referrerPolicy": "origin",
    }

Make sure you have those values set correctly for your application.

Healthcheck

The application exposes a health endpoint (https://localhost:3300/health), created with the use of Nodejs Healthcheck library. This endpoint is defined in health.ts file. Make sure you adjust it correctly in your application. In particular, remember to replace the sample check with checks specific to your frontend app, e.g. the ones verifying the state of each service it depends on.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE file for details.