Basic Stack-Overflow

A minimalistic version of popular website stackoverflow.

Introduction

I have been developing this project under the course "Distributed System (CSE-601)". The requirement

• At first I have to develop this project following monolithic architecture.

Features

• User sign up, sign in, logout functionality
• User can post textual information without or with code ( either copy paste teh code or directly input the file from their system)
• One user can view other users post in the home page ( most recent post will be at the frontline ). But the user will not view their posts from the home page.
• Users will have notification of other users's posting
• Users can click on the notification to view the details of the post related to the notification
• The viewed notification will not be rendered later. But the unviewed notification will stay on the notification page until the user views it.

Tech Stack

Frontend: React, Material UI

Backend: Nodejs, Expressjs

Database: MongoDB

ObjectDB: Minio

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/ShifatJahanShifa/Basic-StackOverflow.git

Go to the project directory

  cd Basic-StackOverflow

Install dependencies

Frontend:

cd client
npm install

Backend:

cd server
npm install

Run the project

Frontend:

  npm start

Backend:

  node index.js

Distributed Basic-StackOverFlow

Alhamdulillah I have successfully converted the Monolithic Basic-Stackoverflow to Distributed Basic-Stakoverflow. According to the requirement:

- Nginx server is used as reverse proxy server
- Server side code is divided into three services- user service, post service, notification service
- Inter service communication is established
- The three service have three different database associated with them
- Three services, three associated databases, minio all are orchestrated in docker-compose.yml file
- Additionaly, i have containerized frontend separately but have not orchestrated.

Run

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/ShifatJahanShifa/Basic-StackOverflow.git

Go to the project directory

  cd Basic-StackOverflow

Install dependencies

Frontend:

  cd client
  npm install

Backend:

Must have docker installed

Run the project

Frontend:

  cd client
  npm start

Backend:

  docker-compose build
  docker-compose up