eventdriven-url-shortner

A URL shortner created upon event driven microservice architecture with frontend developed in ReactJS and backend with NodeJS.

Web UI

Frontend built using ReactJS and Tailwind CSS

Home

Track Link

Application Architecture

There are two microservices each with its own database and all the communication between these services are through RabbitMQ message queues. NGINX is used as a reverse proxy to forward the requests to their respective service and as a web server to serve the client application.

Link Management Service
Analytics Service

Installation

1. Pull the repository on your local machine

$ git clone https://github.com/shazsyed/eventdriven-url-shortner

2. Creating NGINX & RabbitMQ containers

$ docker-compose up --build

Note: Default NGINX port is 80, edit the exposing port for nginx service in ./docker-compose.yml file.

3. Creating docker containers for the services

$ cd microservices
$ docker-compose -f LinkManagementService/docker-compose.yml up --build
$ docker-compose -f AnalyticsService/docker-compose.yml up --build

Your Docker containers should look like this

Shortner should be listening on `http://localhost:80/`

My Thoughts

The purpose for this project was to explore microservice architecture and learn how modern applications are developed, during the development of this project I came across problems which were specific to a microservice architecture and learned about some patterns which are implemented to mitigate them. This project became a huge reason for me to learn Typescript and use it frequently in future.

shazsyed/eventdriven-url-shortner