rajatsvn / xmeme_app

XMeme App created as a part of Crio's Winter of Doing Stage 2B

XMeme: The Meme Stream App

XMeme is a simple meme stream app in which you can

• add a meme
• edit your meme
• watch a full meme stream
• the app is publicly available and deployed Here

Tech

XMeme was made with ❤️ using the following technologies:

• Tailwindcss - A utility-first css frameworks with css classes to be directly used in markup
• Handlebars - An awesome templating engine
• Node.js - Evented I/O for backend
• Express - Fast Node.js network app framework
• MongoDB - General purpose, document based NoSQL Database
• Swagger - Document your Rest APIs seamlessly with Swagger Docs

Tools

These tools came in very handy while developing the application

• Postman - Industry standard for everything to do with APIs
• Robo 3T - GUI to connect to MongoDB database, formerly Robomongo

Installation on AWS EC2 Ubuntu 18.04 x86

• Deploy an AWS EC2 Ubuntu 18.04 x86 VM from AWS Console

• Go to EC2 Instances Dashboard and add rules to enable port 8080 and 8081

• The Security group configuration should look like below:

• ssh into the ec2 instance

• git clone this repo using the following command

$ git clone repo_url_here

• cd into the cloned repo

• Setup the Server and run basic tests using the test_server.sh by typing the following command

$ chmod +x test_server.sh
$ sudo ./test_server.sh

• New to AWS? See AWS_Help

Creating the Docker 🐳 Image

• You can simply spin up the application using Docker locally by issuing this command from root of repo,

$ docker-compose up -d # Start as background process
$ # add sleep script , sleep 300 would be a good estimate
$ # add test script below 

Note: Please make sure you have docker and docker-compose installed on your system.

• New to Docker? See Docker_Install, Docker_Compose_Install, Docker_Compose