rasjonell-zz/zuck_life

Social Media On Graphs

Zuck Life

This Project demonstrates how to use "The Foxx Way" architectural pattern to build a social media app on graphs.

For more information you can:

• Watch the webinar were I described the benefits of this architecture: https://youtu.be/VTXIL-fmSxY
• Check out the presentation in the video mentioned above - https://rasjonell.github.io/presentations
• Read an article on Foxx services - https://rasjonell.tech/posts/2020-02-03-foxx-typescript.html

Project Architecture

Project Structure

├── README.md
├── frontend  ( React         - Javascript )
├── API       ( Express/Proxy - Typescript )
└── services  ( Foxx          - Typescript )
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    ├── auth  ( Sessions logic, User creation )
    ├── posts ( Posts, comments, ratings      )
    └── user  ( Followings, timelines, etc.   )

Running The App

• Install the dependencies:

  ./install_packages.sh

• Run arangodb with a specified config file

  arangod -c <PATH-TO-CONFIG>/arangod.conf

  (note: you need to have --http.trusted-origin * option for your services to be able to send credentials via the reverse-proxy)

• Run each service:

  • Frontend - yarn start
  • API - npm run watch
  • Services
    • {Auth,User,Posts} - npm run install:service