Create a Dockerized NodeJS (reverse) proxy Express server to fetch data from GitHub

[thescientist13]

Type of Change

• New Feature Request
• Documentation
• Improvement / Suggestion
• Bug
• Other (please clarify below)

Summary

In order for the frontend to fetch live data from GitHub, a backend API will need to make requests on behalf of the UI.

Details

1. Will need an EC2 instance running w/ Docker
2. Will need a way to manage environment variables for GitHub authentication token
3. Document release procedure
4. Rate limiting?
5. Memcached?

[thescientist13]

maybe it makes sense to just use a Lambda for now, and consider this as part of another phase, where something like memcached could be leveraged and maybe all of it Dockerized.