WED2-Notes-Application

This is a note-taking application.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need to use the application in alpine

Application:

Clone the App:

git clone https://gitlab.dev.ifs.hsr.ch/tnebai/wed2-notes-application.git

NodeJS:

apk add --update nodejs npm

Load balancer:

Nginx install:

apk add nginx

Nginx setup:

/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

upstream notetakingapp {
    server 127.0.0.1:8080;
    server 127.0.0.1.:8081;
}
server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    location / {
            proxy_pass http://notetakingapp;
            auth_basic "Restricted Content";
            auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
    }

    # You may need this to prevent return 404 recursion.
    location = /404.html {
            internal;
    }
}

Nginx start:

/etc/init.d/nginx start

Basic Authentication:

apache2-utils install:

apk add apache2-utils

Create User with password:

``` 
Creating a user for the first time with -c, otherwise without -c 
```
htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd  user1

KV storage:

MongoDB

MongoDB install:

apk add --no-cache mongodb

MongoDB start:

mongod --dbpath /wed2-notes-application/note-taking-app/data/db

Mongoose install:

npm install mongoose

Grpc:

Grpc install:

npm install grpc
npm install @grpc/proto-loader

Two instance of http services:

port 8080
port 8081

Running app

Steps to follow to run the app:

nginx start

nc -l 8888                              => listening on this port from localhost

node public/javascript/server.js     

npm start                               => This starts the server on port 8080

PORT=8081 npm start                     => This starts the server on port 8081

Then give username and password for the basic authentication

Built With

• Express Node JS - The web framework used