Ayoitsjason/final-project-tweeter

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Project description

Tweeter

• Create a simple twitter like app
• Login/user functionality
• Real time updates
• 1 main feature: message broadcasting
• app mock up: https://www.figma.com/file/43bIdBxlSfPcrTN2rUH0YW/csc667-tweeter-project?node-id=0%3A1

Project team members

• Front end - Hale, Jesus, Jason
• Back end - Deep, Kevin, Bakulia, Sam
• Github master - Kevin

Tech Requirements for project:

• Express back end with get/post endpoints
• Mongodb for storage
• Run on EC2
• Websocket for real time interactions FE
• React + Redux with routes for FE
• Microserver architecture back end with some services running multiple instances
• All FE requests must first hit gateway
• redis for caching values
• Backend components must be dockerized and running in Docker swarm mode
• Kafka for at least 1 conveyer
• Distributed messaging can be done with either kafka or redis

Kafka

Get latest images

• docker-compose pull

Start docker

• docker swarm init
• docker stack deploy -c docker-compose.yml kafka-demo

Run Kafka files

• node server/kafkaTweet/producerKafka.js
• node server/kafkaTweet/consumerKafka.js
• node server/mongo-service.js

MongoDB

• go to the mongodb directory
• Manually start with bin/mongod --dbpath path to db

Redis

• cd to download dirctory
• make
• ./src/redis-server

Getting the app up and running

• Install dependencies:
• react npm i -S react
• react thunk npm i -S react-thunk