Small is a simple blogging application, similar to Medium. It will let users write little blog posts which will all be shared on the main page.

I have followed the structure on https://testdriven.io but have not focussed on the tests and have used APIStart rather than Flask.

This application has the following services:

1. users - manage users and authentication
2. client - client-side React application
3. posts - manager user posts
4. gateway - a proxy to run the applications under the same domain

Tools

• APIStar
• React
• Nginx
• Docker

Environment configuration

This application is production ready. The following environment variables are required for each service.

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# FRONTEND #
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REACT_APP_USERS_SERVICE_BASE_URL=
REACT_APP_POSTS_SERVICE_BASE_URL=

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# USERS    #
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JWT_SECRET=jwt_secret
DATABASE_URL=postgres_database_url

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# POSTS    #
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DATABASE_URL=

In development, also include the following environment variables

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# FRONTEND #
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LOCAL_DEV=True


#################
# POSTS & USERS #
#################
LOCAL_DEV=True
SETTINGS_CLASS=LocalConfiguration

Deployment

To deploy use Docker and your container orchestration technology of choice. Copy the template in docker-compose.yml to set up the containers correctly.