valkyron / mern-docker-project-proposal-system

Dockerized a MERN project proposal system with multiple components.

MERN-docker-project-proposal

Dockerized a MERN project proposal system with:

• role authentication using Routes
• save form progress
• json web access tokens
• uploading files directly to MongoDB cloud storage using GridFS

Methodology

• Initialize frontend with npx create-react-app frontend
• mkdir backend
• create controllers for projectproposal and user auth calls
• use Axios for post and retrieving JSON responses
• create Dockerfile and .dockerignore for both frontend and backend
• ignore node_modules and
• create docker_compose.yaml in root folder
• initialize 3 services: mongo (with environment url), frontend and backend

Prerequisities

• node.js v18.13.0
• express.js
• Mongo Compass
• Docker, WSL

Usage

• Open cmd
• Install packages from package.json for backend

cd ./server/
npm install

• Install packages from package.json for frontend

cd ../frontend/
npm install

Without docker

• Run the server

cd ../server/
npm run dev

With docker

docker-compose up

Authors:

Devansh Kaushik, IIT Jodhpur(M22CS005)