Discussion Board Project

Application Architecture

Application created using a MERN stack.

• MongoDB database
• Node (express, mongoose, bcrypt, validator) server API

Running as node application locally

1. Install mongoDB (installation guide)
2. Install Node (Node Downloads)
3. Clone down the repository: git clone https://github.com/Monika-Mistry/Node-Assessment.git
4. Go to root of project and run the following two commands:

npm install
npm install -g nodemon

5. Run the application: nodemon ./server.js

Running with Docker

1. Clone down the repository: git clone https://github.com/Monika-Mistry/Node-Assessment.git
2. Install docker-compose:

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.23.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

3. Build new images for the services: docker-compose build
4. Running the application: docker-compose up -d
5. Tearing down the application: docker-compose down --rmi all