CS3219 AY2324S1 Project

Getting started

Start by ensuring that you have NodeJS and Yarn installed. The following commands should show the version of NodeJS and Yarn you have installed.

node --version
yarn --version

Run the installation script for the development environment using the following command.

bash install-deps-dev.sh

Migrate your database for users service and history service to the latest update by running the following commands.

cd users-service
yarn knex migrate:latest
cd ../history-service
yarn knex migrate:latest
cd ..

Copy .env.example in ./users-service into .env to set the environment variables for users service. Please remember to change your JWT_SECRET.

Ensure that you have docker installed in your system. The following command should show the version of Docker you have installed.

docker --version

To start the containers in the development environment, run the following command.

bash start-dev.sh

When you start the containers for the first time, go into the PostgreSQL container and create 2 databases, users and history.

docker exec -it postgresql sh
psql -U postgres
create database users;
create database history;

Then, go into the users-service and history-service and run the database migrations.

cd users-service
yarn knex migrate:latest
cd history-service
yarn knex migrate:latest

The following list shows the connection details for each of the microservice used in this application.

Services:

• Frontend: http://localhost:3000
• Questions Service: http://localhost:3001
• Users Service: http://localhost:3002
• Matchmaking Service: ws://localhost:3003
• Collaboration Service: ws://localhost:3004
• History Service: http://localhost:3005
• Video Service: ws://localhost:3006
• Python Formatter Service: http://localhost:5000

Databases:

• MongoDB: Port 27017
• Postgresql: Port 5432
• Redis: Port 6379

Development Tools:

• MongoExpress: http://localhost:8081
• PgAdmin: http://localhost:8082
  • Email: test@example.com
  • Password: test
• RedisInsight: http://localhost:8083