Thoughts

Thoughts is a post-sharing application where users can create, browse, like and repost posts and follow other users.

Architecture

Service	Language	Description
apigateway	Go	API Gateway between the frontend and the backend services.
authservice	Python	Authentication service for creation and validation of sessions.
database	SQL	PostgreSQL database with tables, relationships and functions.
frontend	JavaScript	React frontend of the app.
postservice	Go	Service for creation, liking, reposting and fetching of posts.
userservice	Python	Service for creation, following and fetching of users.

Setup

Clone the repository

Clone the repository to your filesystem

git clone git@github.com:robbdimitrov/thoughts.git
cd thoughts

Build the images

Build all the images

make

Or build specific images

make apigateway
make authservice
make database
make frontend
make postservice
make userservice

Create namespace

Create namespace for the k8s resources

kubectl create namespace thoughts

Create deployments

Create deployments and volumes

kubectl apply -f ./k8s -n thoughts

Access the frontend

Enable port forwarding

kubectl port-forward service/frontend 8080:8080 -n thoughts

Open the frontend here.

Cleanup

Delete all resources

kubectl delete -f ./k8s -n thoughts

Delete the namespace

kubectl delete namespace thoughts

API

The API documentation is available here.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.