What is this?

This is an application that lets speakers submit talks to JavaZone.

Integrates with Sleepingpill which stores the talks.

Getting started

• Check out repo: git clone git@github.com:javaBin/submit.git
• Build backend: cd backend && mvn clean install
• Build frontend: cd frontend && npm install
• Build nodeproxy: cd scripts/proxy && npm install
• Start local postgres: cd localpostgres && vagrant up
• Run the app: ./scripts/start.sh

This starts a screen. To escape from the screen: ctrl-x, q, y.

Running it in IntelliJ

Run the class SubmitApplication. Couldn't be easier ;)

Debugging in Postman

We have created a Postman Collection to make it easy to test all the API calls of Submit when developing.

• Install Postman
• Import the collection submit.postman_collection.json
• Setup Postman environment with key-value: baseurl=https://submit.javazone.no or baseurl=http://localhost:8080
• Start by running the POST – Generate token with your email address.
• Then you can do any other call using the token you got in an email in an X-token header.

Application deployment to AWS

First time: set up software and configure credentials

Install aws and eb command line tools, as well as ansible:

brew install awscli
brew install aws-elasticbeanstalk
brew install ansible

Edit/add the file ~/.aws/credentials and add these lines

[javabin]
aws_access_key_id = <ADD YOURS HERE>
aws_secret_access_key = <ADD YOURS HERE>

Every time: deploy the app to AWS

• cd frontend && ./deploy.sh (you'll be asked about which bucket to deploy to)
• cd backend && ./deploy.sh submit-<env>

The deploy needs the ansible vault password to be able to decrypt the property file. Ask around to get it :)

Cloud tips and tricks :)

SSH to the instance

You need the ssh key. Get the private and public key (javabin and javabin.pub) from someone who have them already, and place them in ~/.ssh

Then you just do:

eb ssh submit-<env>

• Logs: cd /var/log && tail -f web*.log nginx/*log
• App files: cd /var/app/current/

App property files for AWS

To edit which properties are used for deployment to AWS, edit the files in the config folder:

ansible-vault edit config/<env>.properties.encrypted

You need the vault password for this. Ask around to get access to it :)

Create a new environment

You could probably just use test/prod which exists.

If you need a new, do this and follow the instructions to get an environment up and running

eb create --region eu-central-1 --profile javabin

You need to setup a database + property files for backend + a frontend S3 bucket + load balancer as well. For now, this is a "manual process". Ask around... ;)