What is this?

Originally forked from the submission system used at JavaZone

This is an application that lets speakers submit talks to CapraCon.

Integrates with Sleepingpill which stores the talks.

Getting started

Check out repo: git clone git@github.com:javaBin/submit.git
Build backend: cd backend && mvn clean install
Build frontend: cd frontend && npm install
Build nodeproxy: cd scripts/proxy && npm install
Start local postgres: cd localpostgres && vagrant up
Run the app: ./scripts/start.sh

This starts a screen. To escape from the screen: ctrl-x, q, y.

Running it in IntelliJ

Run the class SubmitApplication. Couldn't be easier ;)

Debugging in Postman

We have created a Postman Collection to make it easy to test all the API calls of Submit when developing.

Install Postman
Import the collection submit.postman_collection.json
Setup Postman environment with key-value: baseurl=https://submit.javazone.no or baseurl=http://localhost:8080
Start by running the POST – Generate token with your email address.
Then you can do any other call using the token you got in an email in an X-token header.

Application deployment to AWS

First time: set up software and configure credentials

Install aws and eb command line tools, as well as ansible:

brew install awscli
brew install aws-elasticbeanstalk
brew install ansible

Edit/add the file ~/.aws/credentials and add these lines

[javabin]
aws_access_key_id = <ADD YOURS HERE>
aws_secret_access_key = <ADD YOURS HERE>

Every time: deploy the app to AWS

cd frontend && ./deploy.sh (you'll be asked about which bucket to deploy to)
cd backend && ./deploy.sh submit-<env>

The deploy needs the ansible vault password to be able to decrypt the property file. Ask around to get it :)

Cloud tips and tricks :)

SSH to the instance

You need the ssh key. Get the private and public key (javabin and javabin.pub) from someone who have them already, and place them in ~/.ssh

Then you just do:

eb ssh submit-<env>

Logs: cd /var/log && tail -f web*.log nginx/*log
App files: cd /var/app/current/

App property files for AWS

To edit which properties are used for deployment to AWS, edit the files in the config folder:

ansible-vault edit config/<env>.properties.encrypted

You need the vault password for this. Ask around to get access to it :)

Create a new environment

You could probably just use test/prod which exists.

If you need a new, do this and follow the instructions to get an environment up and running

eb create --region eu-central-1 --profile javabin

You need to setup a database + property files for backend + a frontend S3 bucket + load balancer as well. For now, this is a "manual process". Ask around... ;)

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