my-app

Environment setup

You need to have Go, Node.js, Docker, and Docker Compose (comes pre-installed with Docker on Mac and Windows) installed on your computer.

Verify the tools by running the following commands:

go version
npm --version
docker --version
docker-compose --version

If you are using Windows you will also need gcc. It comes installed on Mac and almost all Linux distributions.

Start in development mode

In the project directory run the command (you might need to prepend it with sudo depending on your setup):

docker-compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up

This starts a local MongoDB on localhost:27017. The database will be populated with test records from the init-db.js file.

Install Air

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cosmtrek/air/master/install.sh | sh -s -- -b $(go env GOPATH)/bin

For less typing, you could add alias air='$GOPATH/bin/air' to your .bashrc or .zshrc.

Navigate to the server folder and start the back end:

cd server
air 
#if no air :), use:
go run server.go

The back end will serve on http://localhost:8080.

Navigate to the frontend folder, install dependencies, and start the front end development server by running:

cd frontend
yarn
yarn dev

The application will be available on http://localhost:3000.

Start in production mode

Perform:

docker-compose up

This will build the application and start it together with its database. Access the application on http://localhost:8080.