provoice

The Invoice app

This project uses the following technology:

• yarn - node package manager
• lerna - a tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages.
• NodeJS for back-end.
• Video referered to integrate Redis and Node. -Draw.io to create diagrams.
• mLabs used to store sessions in MongoDB.
• AWS for deployment.
• Heroku to deploy front-end.

Weekly progress

Week 1:

• Decided the project idea and road-map.
• Decided what technology stack should be used.
• Went through multiple project ideas and discussed each one.
• Need to distribute tasks related to development to team members leveraging expertise knowledge.
• Discussed how each microservices services would integrate with each other.

Agenda: Road-map for Project and Task Distribution

Number of meeting hours this week: 2

Week 2:

• Finally agreed on provoice App prototype.
• Finished wrapper API individually for database clusters.
• Reviewed as a team - Feasible timeline of tasks and responsibilities.
• Started coding for back-end.

Agenda: To select the Application. Talk about API Document. Make trello Board to get the project done in desired timeline.

Number of meeting hours this week: 2

Week 3:

• Created a design architecture.
• Discussed how the functionalities will split.
• Created a docker instance for different services.
• Defined best api gateway for service discovery.
• Front-end in ANGULAR finished.

Agenda: Design Architecture, Functional Split, Sharding, Replication stratgy.

Number of meeting hours this week: 3

Week 4:

• UI Improvements.
• Finished all the functionalities.
• Hosted the front-end on Heroku.
• Hosted the back-end on AWS.
• Connected MongoDB to maintain session.
• Added load balancers.Nginx

Number of meeting hours this week: 5

Week 5:

• Finished writing the Project Journal.
• Tested the performance of the Provoice App prototype.

Number of meeting hours this week: 1

Challenges faced:

• Creating the design of the system.
• Set up the tools required for the application to work.
• Integrating front-end and back-end.
• Integrating Several APIs.
• Some conflicts in the code took significant amount of time to resolve.
• How to achieve functionality split.

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Project Setup:

You can install all packages (including respective dependencies) and link them using the following command:

$ cd <provoice>

## only needed to run occasionally...
$ yarn install

## run to link project packages listed above...
$ yarn run bootstrap

example

To add new node module say angular

$ lerna add angular@version --scope=provoice-web

NOTE: Changes made to any individual package must follow the normal process of creating a PR, adding, committing, and pushing to its own repo.