dnyakonyu / yolo

Nodejs, Express API and MongoDB e-commerce feature project

Nodejs, Express API and MongoDB e-commerce feature project

Author-Duncan Ndirangu

Requirements

Make sure that you have the following installed:

• node
• npm
• MongoDB and start the mongodb service with sudo service mongod start

Navigate to the Client Folder

cd client

Run the folllowing command to install the dependencies

npm install

Run the folllowing to start the app

npm start

Open a new terminal and run the same commands in the backend folder

cd ../backend

npm install

npm start

About the app

Actually, there are two separated apps. The Client which serves the FrontEnd (using React), and the Backend (in Node/Express).

Run the app using : $ docker-compose up --build

To check the status :

MongoDB: A cross-platform document database

docker-compose ps MongoDB is a NoSQL (non-relational) document-oriented database. Data is stored in flexible documents with a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)-based query language. MongoDB is known for being flexible and easy to scale.

How to stop the App :

Express: A back-end web application framework

$ docker-compose stop Express is a web application framework for Node.js, another MERN component. Instead of writing full web server code by hand on Node.js directly, developers use Express to simplify the task of writing server code.

Languages & tools

React: A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

• Node React was originally created by a software engineer at Facebook, and was later open-sourced. The React library can be used for creating views rendered in HTML. In a way, it’s the defining feature of the stack.

• Express

Node.js: A cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment

Creating the Build

To create the build for the entire application, we need to run the following command: docker-compose build

Starting the Services

We can start the multi-container system using the following simple command: docker-compose up

At last, we can open http://localhost:3000 to see our React Frontend.

The backend server is live on http://localhost:5000

And MongoDB is running on http://localhost:27017

License MIT