About

The application is an e-commerce website that doubles-up as a dashboard where you can load retail products on to the site. You can test out this functionality by adding a product through the provided form

Navigate to the repository at below link and clone it

https://github.com/smmuiruri/sam_yolo

Application comes with all prerequisites and therefore no need to install or run them

• node
• npm installed
• npm started
• mongo

The application is packaged into three containers which will automatically build and start upon running the start commands

• client container (launched by Dockerfile inside Client folder)
• backend container (launched by Dockerfile inside Client folder)
• mongodb container (launched from docker-compose file in the main app directory)

Networking

-We have Client, API, and the Database, all running in separated containers with only one command. The three containers are interconnected in a bridge network -Client runs on ports 3000 -Api/backend runs on port 5000

Run the folllowing to start the app

• docker-compose up --build (docker-compose file in the main directory of the app contains build and run orchestration)

####### Open the application using the localhost ip after spinning the app at http://0.0.0.0:8080

• Go ahead and add a product (note that the price field only takes a numeric input)