Features

Node

For the backend

Typescript

For bringing types into javascript

MongoDB

As database (you probably guessed it!)

Graphql

For querying datas from the client

Docker & docker-compose

For containerizing and deploying/managing the application (different services). When the app starts, multiple containers are started:

- the app container running the node app
- the mongoDB container 
- the mongo-seed container to seed the database. Exits after the seed completes
- the Nginx container for routing/load balancing
- the frontend container for building assets (js, css, html) for the [future] client application.

Running the application

Prerequisites: Docker and make (make is preinstalled on unix computers, can be installed on windows) have to be installed on the host machine.

First clone this repo git clone https://github.com/melkishengue/node-typescipt-ME-N.git

Then cd node-typescipt-ME-N

Run tests: make test

Run the app: make start for development or make start-production for production. That's it 😎

When the installation completes, run the app at: http://subaru-movies.localhost:9000 at localhost.

You can also visit the graphiql endoint at http://subaru-movies.localhost:8001/api/graphql. 2 schemas have been defined: movies and reviews. You can query against them using graphql queries :

E.g.:

query { movies { title year imdb } }

or creating a new movie mutation { createMovie(title: "The last Kindom", year: "2018", imdb: "tt005946d2") { title year imdb } }

The page looks like this:

To stop the app: Press ctrl-c and then remove all created containers by running make clean.

TODO:

• add auth for mongoDB
• add swagger for API documentation (first solve the problem of redefinintion of models accross different parts of the application: graphql, mongoose, typescript and swagger...)
• convert the compose file to version 3
• deploy the app with kubernetes/rancher
• writing tests