PoC for Microservices in NodeJS and React

Motivation

This is a Proof of Concept, about how to create microservices using NodeJS, Express and React. This project contains a monorepo which represents the microservices to manage a blog website.

Features

This project uses:

• Monorepo approach
• Add logger in express with Winston
• Manage environment variables with dotenv dependency.
• Add swagger open API v3 definitions.
• Add postman collections

Wish list

• Add prettier and eslint
• Add Husky pre-commit configuration
• Add Docker or Kubernate to manage the Microservices in containers
• Add a load balancer with nginx to scale up or scale down the number of microservices

Architecture

@TODO: Add architecture logical view or conceptual diagram.

Micro Service	Port	Description	Technologies
Post	4000	Represent the microservice to create and list the posts	Express
Comments	4001	Represents the microservice to create and list the comments related to the posts	Express
Query	4002	Represents the microservice to collect	Express
Moderation	4003	Represents the microservice to moderate the comments created	Express
Event Bus	4005	Handle events and propage them between microservices	Express

Web Clients	Port	Description	Technologies
Client	3000	Represents the web client to consume the microservices	React

Technologies

• React 18.x / Create-react-app
• Express
• Axios
• Wiston

Steps

Runing images with Docker

For each microservice, you can run the next command

docker build -t codesandtags/${MICROSERVICE_NAME}.

# Example in posts

docker build -t codesandtags/posts

If you prefer you can run build all docker images by running the next command.

sh build-containers.sh

Runing images with Docker Compose

To run this project using Docker compose, only run the next command:

docker-compose up

Runing project with Kubernates

Runing project on AWS

Runing project on GPC

Demo

TODO: Add link with demo

Resources

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Contact

Feel free to contact me at:

• Linkedin
• Gmail
• Github