https://github.com/icyjoseph/weather-webtask

Weather webtask
https://github.com/icyjoseph/weather-webtask

express nodejs serverless weather webtask

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Weather webtask

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/icyjoseph/weather-webtask
• Owner: icyJoseph
• Created: 2018-09-08T07:51:34.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-08T12:15:16.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-21T19:41:25.792Z (12 months ago)
• Topics: express, nodejs, serverless, weather, webtask
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 131 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
# Weather WebTask

Express server using [webtask.io](https://webtask.io/).

## Purpose

This express server is the backend to [my weather UI](https://github.com/icyJoseph/weatherApp).

It's main purpose is to hide secret API keys and reduce the front end asynchronous code to one call.

This express server in turn takes a query, and puts it through the Geolocation API and then the Weather Forecast API.

## Webtask context

The request object contains a bunch of valuable information.

This snippet for a POST request will help you see this information in a more readable way.

```javascript

app.post("/", (req, res) => {

  // To see all the information loaded in the req object

  console.log(Object.keys(req));

  const {

    webtaskContext,

    query,

    body,

    route,

    params,

    originalUrl,

    baseUrl

  } = req;

  console.log("webtaskContext", webtaskContext);

  console.log("query", query);

  console.log("body", body);

  console.log("route", route);

  console.log("params", params);

  console.log("originalUrl", originalUrl);

  console.log("baseUrl", baseUrl);

  return res.status(200).send({});

});

```

The webtaskContext object, gives us access to very useful information, one of which are secrets.

```javascript

{ data: {},

  headers:

   { 'content-type': 'application/json',

     'user-agent': 'vscode-restclient',

     host: 'localhost:1337',

     'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate',

     'content-length': '34',

     connection: 'keep-alive',

     'x-wt-params': 'eyJjb250Y1lpZXIiOiJ3ZWJ0YXNrLWxvY2FsIiwibWIiOnRydWUsInBjdHgiOnt9LCJwYiI6bnVsbCwicmVxX2lkIjoiMTUzNjQxNjk4NzU3OCIsImVjdHgiOnt9LCJtZXRhIjp7fSwidG9rZW4iOiJleUpoYkdjaU9pSklVekkxTmlJc0luUjVjQ0k2SWtwWFZDSjkuZXlKallTSTZXMTBzSW1Sa0lqb3hMQ0pxZEdraU9pSlBhSGxPTjFFdlZtOXVXREEzYW1OaWJWTkhkbFJxVFc5bEwwMXpaRUZqV2lJc0ltbGhkQ0k2TVRVpk5qUXhOams0TnpVM09Td2lkR1Z1SWpvaWQyVmlkR0Z6YXkxc2IyTmhiQ0o5LmZrMk9WaXVfR1lNRkduNTlDYUx6WFByUDlBODVCejE4SGdQYTlINnRiS0UiLCJ1cmxfZm9ybWF0IjozfQ==' },

  id: '1536416987892',

  params: {},

  query: {},

  secrets: {},

  meta: {},

  storage:

   { data: undefined,

     etag: undefined,

     get: [Function: get],

     set: [Function: set] },

  token: undefined,

  create_token: [Function],

  create_token_url: [Function],

  read: [Function: readNotAvailable],

  write: [Function: writeNotAvailable] }

```

The secrets are your API keys and other information you may use to forward calls and fetch data from other API endpoints.