pay-frontend

GOV.UK Pay Frontend application (Node.js)

Running locally

Prerequisites

• This requires the Pay CLI, which is not publicly available at present.
• You have set up your local development environment
• Clone this repo locally.

Starting app

Copy .env.example and rename to .env. This contains the environment variables required to run the app, and contains the URLs for other microservices that frontend makes requests to, which default to the URLs that apps run using pay local are available on.

Start the Pay local environment

pay local launch --cluster card

Start frontend

npm install && npm run compile
npm run start:dev

Make a create payment request to the locally running Public API app, and visit the next_url with the host changed to http://localhost:3000.

Debug using Visual Studio Code

• In VSCode, go to the Debug view (on MacOS, use shortcut CMD + shift + D).
• From the Run toolbar, select tne launch config Frontend.
• Add breakpoints to any file you want to debug - click in the left hand column and a red dot will appear.
• Press The green play button (F5 MacOS):
  • This will run the app in debug mode.
  • Uses nodemon so it will automatically restart on code changes.

Watching for changes

You shouldn’t need to restart the app to see changes you make.

We use nodemon which watches for changes to files and restarts the node process.

If you’re making changes to client-side JS or Sass files (anything within /assets/) then running npm run watch-live-reload will watch for changes and recompile. Nodemon does not do anything here as that’s not necessary. If you install the livereload browser plugin then it will refresh your page once the assets have been compiled to the /public folder.

Running tests

To run mocha tests

npm run compile && npm test

Debug tests using Visual Studio Code

IMPORTANT NOTE - some tests do not work in debug mode

• Some integration tests do not work in debug mode. This is because the tests are dependent on other tests running before hand.
• Nevertheless, it is still useful to debug tests that do work in debug mode.

Run tests in debug mode

• In VSCode, go to the Debug view (on MacOS, use shortcut CMD + shift + D).
• From the Run toolbar, select the launch config you want to run:
  • Mocha All - runs all tests.
  • Mocha Current File - only run currently open test file.
• Add breakpoints to any file you want to debug - click in the left hand column and a red dot will appear.
• Press The green play button or F5.

To run cypress tests

Run in two separate terminals:

1. npm run cypress:server

   This runs both the Cypress server and Mountebank which is the virtualisation server used for stubbing out external API calls.

2. Either:

• npm run cypress:test to run headless
• npm run cypress:test-headed to run headed

Key environment variables

variable	required	default value	Description
PORT	X	9200	The port number for the express server to be bound at runtime
SESSION_ENCRYPTION_KEY	X		key to be used by the cookie encryption algorithm. Should be a large unguessable string (More Info).
CONNECTOR_TOKEN_URL	X		The connector endpoint to use when validating the one time token.
ANALYTICS_TRACKING_ID	X		Tracking ID to be used by 'Google-Analytics'.
SECURE_COOKIE_OFF		false/undefined	To switch off generating secure cookies. Set this to true only if you are running self service in a non HTTPS environment.
NODE_WORKER_COUNT		1	The number of worker threads started by node cluster when run in production mode
WORLDPAY_3DS_FLEX_DDC_TEST_URL	X	https://secure-test.worldpay.com/shopper/3ds/ddc.html	URL for Device Data Collection (DDC) initiation in TEST
WORLDPAY_3DS_FLEX_DDC_LIVE_URL	X		URL for Device Data Collection (DDC) initiation in LIVE
WORLDPAY_3DS_FLEX_CHALLENGE_TEST_URL	X	https://secure-test.worldpay.com/shopper/3ds/challenge.html	Pointing to Worldpay's TEST 3ds flex challenge URL.
WORLDPAY_3DS_FLEX_CHALLENGE_LIVE_URL	X	https://centinelapi.cardinalcommerce.com/V2/Cruise/StepUp	Pointing to Worldpay's LIVE 3ds flex challenge URL.
CSP_SEND_HEADER		false/undefined	Apply card payment contest security policy headers.
CSP_ENFORCE		false/undefined	Browser will block content security policy violations if set to true, default is to only report on violations.
CSP_REPORT_URI			URI to receive CSP violation reports.
GOOGLE_PAY_MERCHANT_ID			Merchant ID used to identify GOV.UK Pay to Google when making a payment request. This ID is got from the Google Pay Developer Profile.
GOOGLE_PAY_MERCHANT_ID_2			The same as GOOGLE_PAY_MERCHANT_ID, but used to rotate to a new merchant id in a safe way.

Licence

MIT License

Responsible Disclosure

GOV.UK Pay aims to stay secure for everyone. If you are a security researcher and have discovered a security vulnerability in this code, we appreciate your help in disclosing it to us in a responsible manner. We will give appropriate credit to those reporting confirmed issues. Please e-mail gds-team-pay-security@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk with details of any issue you find, we aim to reply quickly.