This is a barebones web app using Docker, Node, Express, Mongo, and Angular. The purpose of this application is to demonstrate how to wire up a frontend and backend with simple routing that controls a server-side resource.
The web server runs with Node and Express. Express provides a simple framework for routing requests to the correct controllers to modify resources. The backing store is Mongo, purely for its simple strategy of storing documents.
The frontend is built with HTML5 and Angular.js, with some jQuery sprinkled in for easy DOM manipulation.
This project is easiest to run with Docker. Once Docker is installed, you can run the app in 'production' mode by running:
make prod
Prod will build the container for the web app, start the database, and start the application on localhost:8080.
To develop the project run, you can run:
make init db dev
init will install all the project's dependencies on your file system using a Docker container. db brings up the database, and dev brings up the app with live reloading, so when server files are edited, they will be immediately be reflected.
make unit-test will run the unit tests in a Docker container, and will re-run whenever you change code. This enables TDD.