- quick fix to hopefully fix hosting issues on Railway

- added configuration for Railway
- other changes are still being worked on, so I decided to withold all of them to ensure successful deployment.

railway.json

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
+  "build": {
+    "builder": "NIXPACKS",
+    "buildCommand": "npm install && ng build --configuration development"
+  },
+  "deploy": {
+    "numReplicas": 1,
+    "startCommand": "node src/server.js",
+    "restartPolicyType": "NEVER"
+  }
+}

src/server.js

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const databaseStarter = require('./src/databaseStarter');
 const databaseService = require('./src/databaseService');
 const apiRouter = require('./src/apiCalls');
 
-const port = process.env.NODE_PORT || 3000;
+const port = process.env.PORT || process.env.NODE_PORT || 3000;
 
 const rootPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'dist', 'angular-messenger');
 

src/src/apiCalls.js

@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ function verifyRequest(req, res, requiredValues = []) {
     let sanitize = (input) => {
       // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2794137/sanitizing-user-input-before-adding-it-to-the-dom-in-javascript
       const map = {
-        '&': '&',
+        //'&': '&',
         '<': '&lt;',
         '>': '&gt;',
         '"': '&quot;',
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ router.post('/sendMessage', (req, res) => {
       if (output?.id) {
         let messageInsertionQuery = {
           dateCreated: newSqlDate(),
-          userId: userId,
+          senderId: userId,
           chatId: messageChatId,
           content: messageContent
         };
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ router.post('/sendMessage', (req, res) => {
           let broadCastedMessage = {
             id: messageId,
             dateCreated: newSqlDate(), // more readable for now
-            userId: userId,
+            senderId: userId,
             content: messageContent
           }
           broadcastMessage(messageChatId, broadCastedMessage);

src/src/databaseStarter.js

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS messages (
   chatId TEXT,
   content TEXT,
 
-  FOREIGN KEY(userId) REFERENCES users(id),
+  FOREIGN KEY(senderId) REFERENCES users(id),
   FOREIGN KEY(chatId) REFERENCES chats(id)
 
   );