Request Pool

RequestBin like application. Users can create ephemeral bins that collect requests for 48 hours. This repository is developed for deploying to a VPS server.

RequestBin like application. Users can create ephemeral bins that collect requests for 48 hours. This repository is developed for deploying to a VPS server.

Development

• Ensure that MongoDB and PostgreSQL are installed on your machine.
• Clone this repository.
• Create .env folder for DB connection inside server folder.
• Run npm install from client and server folders.
• Run npm run dev from server folder.

Deployment (VPS)

• Clone this repository.
• Run npm install from client and server folders.
• Create .env files inside server and db_cleaner.
• Build(npm run build) client react app and move build folder to server folder.
• Run the application as a background process using pm2
• Run the go worker for database clean up as a systemd service.
• (Optional) Configure firewall to allow connections from a single port only
• (Optional) Create an Nginx file inside /etc/nginx/sites-available/ with your domain

Future work

• Add front-end test
• Configure eslint
• Experiment with WebSockets

ERD

(Bins is a Postgres Table and Requests is a Mongo collection. Relationships in this diagram describe logical relationships only)

Architecture

The application is deployed to a DigitalOcean Droplet. It requires additional configuration steps which are described in "Deployment". The diagram shows a deployed application running from a VPS.