Feature Request: auto populating plugin data during the initial server setup.

package.json

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
     "apollo-server-express": "^2.25.4",
     "axios": "^0.21.4",
     "bcryptjs": "^2.4.3",
+    "body-parser": "^1.20.2",
     "cls-bluebird": "^2.1.0",
     "cls-hooked": "^4.2.2",
     "copy-paste": "^1.3.0",
@@ -93,12 +94,12 @@
     "@types/cls-hooked": "^4.3.3",
     "@types/copy-paste": "^1.1.30",
     "@types/cors": "^2.8.13",
-    "@types/express": "^4.17.13",
+    "@types/express": "^4.17.17",
     "@types/express-rate-limit": "^5.1.3",
     "@types/graphql-depth-limit": "^1.1.3",
     "@types/i18n": "^0.13.3",
     "@types/jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.8",
-    "@types/lodash": "^4.14.182",
+    "@types/lodash": "^4.14.195",
     "@types/mongoose-paginate-v2": "^1.6.5",
     "@types/morgan": "^1.9.3",
     "@types/node": "^18.11.9",

src/config/plugins/loadPlugins.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { Plugin } from "../../models";
+import _ from "lodash";
+import pluginData from "./pluginData.json";
+import { logger } from "../../libraries";
+// Only loads plugin data for the time if it's not currently present in the database
+const loadPlugins = async (): Promise<void> => {
+  const res = await Plugin.find();
+  let databaseTitle = process.env.MONGO_DB_URL || "";
+  databaseTitle = databaseTitle.split("mongodb.net/")[1].split("?")[0];
+  if (_.isEmpty(res)) {
+    pluginData.forEach(async (plugin: any) => {
+      await Plugin.create(plugin);
+    });
+    logger.info(
+      "\x1b[1m\x1b[32m%s\x1b[0m",
+      `Uploaded Plugins in ${databaseTitle} `
+    );
+  } else {
+    logger.info(
+      "\x1b[1m\x1b[32m%s\x1b[0m",
+      `Plugin data already present at ${databaseTitle}`
+    );
+  }
+};
+
+export default loadPlugins;

src/config/plugins/pluginData.json

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+[
+  {
+    "pluginInstallStatus": false,
+    "pluginName": "Posts",
+    "pluginCreatedBy": "Talawa Team",
+    "pluginDesc": "Allow users to create, comment and like and share the content in the form of Pictures and Videos.",
+    "installedOrgs": ["62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601", "62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601"]
+  },
+  {
+    "pluginInstallStatus": false,
+    "pluginName": "Events22222222",
+    "pluginCreatedBy": "Talawa Team",
+    "pluginDesc": "Allow users to register and attend for new events with a inbuilt calendar to keep track of daily events.",
+    "installedOrgs": ["62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601", "62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601"]
+  },
+  {
+    "pluginInstallStatus": false,
+    "pluginName": "Donation",
+    "pluginCreatedBy": "Talawa Team",
+    "pluginDesc": "Enables members of the organization to do one time or reccurinng donations to an organization",
+    "installedOrgs": ["62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601", "62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601"]
+  },
+  {
+    "pluginInstallStatus": false,
+    "pluginName": "Chats",
+    "pluginCreatedBy": "Talawa Team",
+    "pluginDesc": "User can share messages with other users in a chat user interface.",
+    "installedOrgs": ["62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601", "62ccfccd3eb7fd2a30f41601"]
+  }
+]

src/server.ts

@@ -30,9 +30,8 @@ import { User } from "./models";
 import { express as voyagerMiddleware } from "graphql-voyager/middleware";
 import { generateErrorMessage } from "zod-error";
 import { getEnvIssues } from "./env";
-
+import loadPlugins from "./config/plugins/loadPlugins";
 const app = express();
-
 app.use(requestTracing.middleware());
 
 const pubsub = new PubSub();
@@ -249,3 +248,4 @@ const serverStart = async (): Promise<void> => {
 };
 
 serverStart();
+loadPlugins();

tsconfig.json

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
     "esModuleInterop": true /* Emit additional JavaScript to ease support for importing CommonJS modules. This enables 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' for type compatibility. */,
     "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true /* Ensure that casing is correct in imports. */,
     "strict": true /* Enable all strict type-checking options. */,
-    "skipLibCheck": true /* Skip type checking all .d.ts files. */
+    "skipLibCheck": true /* Skip type checking all .d.ts files. */,
+    "resolveJsonModule": true /* Allow to import JSON files */
   }
 }