Keyboards & Mice 2018 Craiova

Presentation

You can see (and download) the presentation on Scribd

Demo

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2017 (Community version is enought but any version will work) - at least v15.9.0
- Azure development workload
nodeJs - at least v8 (latest version is recommended)
[OPTIONAL] Visual Studio Code

Azure

You need to deploy 2 resources inside azure:

Azure SignalR Service

You can click on the following link to deploy a resource in Azure:

Get the Connection string from the Keys menu in Azure as we are going to need it later:

Azure Cosmos DB

You can click on the following link to deploy a resource in Azure:

After deploying CosmosDB, you need to create one database named chat and one collection named messages as shown below

Get the Connection string from the Keys menu in Azure as we are going to need it later:

Backend

Open the solution from src/backend/KMCraiova2018.sln with Visual Studio 2017. Edit local.settings.json and replace the SignalR connection string & CosmosDB connection string that you got above. Run the project (CTRL+F5). The first run can be slow if you don't have the azure sdk tools.

Frontend

Run the following commands from a terminal opened inside src/frontend directory:

npm install
npm start