Blog
This Nx sample project is intended to be a very simple blogging app, some time in the future, with Angular on the frontend and Nest on the backend, in an Nx monorepo.
Local development
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Rename .env.dist to .env
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You need mongo installed on your host, or you can run mongo in Docker, by executing
docker-compose up -d mongoin the project root directory. Optional: install a GUI for mongo, such as Compass, remember to change the 'Authentication Database' field to 'blog', on the Compass' connection screen, if you didn't change DB_NAME parameter in the .env file. -
To seed the database with data, run
npm start seedand wait for the log confirming the new user entries have been inserted. -
Start the app locally by executing, in separate terminals
npm start apiandnpm start frontend -
Open localhost:4200 and login with one of these credentials:
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username: john, password: snow
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username: cersei, password: lannister
Running with docker for local development
Execute these commands:
docker-compose -f tools/container-npm/docker-compose.yml run --rm -e NODE_ENV=development frontend npm install
The above will build a bare node image, install and build dependencies from the Linux container's context - your node_modules directory on the host will hold Linux-compatible files which would be mounted for local development when starting the services in the future.
docker rmi container-npm_frontend
The command above removes a tag created on an image with the previous command. Now seed the database with sample data by running:
docker-compose run --rm api npm start seed
Terminate (ctrl+C) once you see the "Seeding complete!" log message.
Finally, run one more command that would start the services - mongo, api and frontend
docker-compose up -d
Wait a bit until the frontend is compiled and running with live-reload, then follow the instructions from the point #5 in the previous section (hint: you can monitor your docker containers with lazydocker - a tool similar to k9s for kubernetes).