As a university assignment, we had to create a simple to-do web application in a group of maximum four students using microservices pattern. This repository contains my microservice that is responsible for the GUI.

Express and Node are together the core of my back-end and the RESTful API. They handle all incoming requests and pass the data to the front-end of the application. The front-end is a single page application with dynamic views based on the AngularJS

• Backup: The database created in Mongo is a part of the backup service incase any of the other services are unavailable

• Single Page: The necessary code is retrieved at the first load of the page, which decreases the number of HTTP requests dramatically.

The service is deployed through the Express framework and is reachable for other teammates under 10.102.107.5:8080. Even though the site will route to the home page with all the lists automatically, it should still be accessed from 10.102.107.5:8080/login first. Otherwise, no user session will be created, which is necessary to be able to access any data from the server.

The service can now be started with a single script, which configures the database and starts server automatically. First we need to download all the required node modules and save them locally.

$ npm install

Then we have to create a database for the local entries. First we need to make sure that MongoDB service is up and running. To start the service (read the documentation on how to start the service on your system https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/administration/install-community/) 


$ services start mongod (Debian)

$ systemctl start mongodb.service (Arch)

After everything has been installed correctly, it is now possible to start the server via:

$ npm start

The site can be accessed locally at: localhost:8080

Additionally it is possible to start the server via:

$ node server.js 

or

$ nodemon server.js