Skogsräven

Skogsräven is an e-commerce web application with a containerized backend consisting of microservices. Front and backend can be run separately, while the backend is further divided into individual services for products, categories, orders, users and notifications.

Tech stack

Frontend

• Typescript
• React
• CSS
• Zustand

Backend / Data

• Node.js
• Express
• Docker
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• MongoDB
• K8s
• Bcrypt
• Mongoose

Quick start (recommended)

run docker-compose up to start the whole application in one go. The application will be available at:

• Frontend: http://localhost:4173
• RabbitMQ Management: http://localhost:15673
• MongoDB: http://localhost:27018

Seed initial data for categories, products and a user with cd backend/common && npm run seed. You can then log in using the credentials: username [email protected], password: pw.

To stop all services, run docker-compose down.

Frontend only

1. run npm install from the frontend folder to install the dependencies.
2. to start the frontend only, run npm start.

Backend only

1. run npm install from each of the service folders (product-service, category-service, order-service, user-service and notification-service.), as well as the common folder within the backend.
2. run npm start for each of the services you want to run respectively
3. run docker run -d --name rabbitmq -p 5673:5672 -p 15673:15672 rabbitmq:3-management to start RabbitMQ
4. run docker run -d --name redis -p 6380:6379 redis:latest to start redis
5. run docker run -d --name mongodb -p 27018:27017 -v mongodb_data:/data/db mongo:latest to start MongoDB

Service Ports

• Frontend: 4173
• User Service: 3001
• Product Service: 3002
• Order Service: 3003
• Notification Service: 3004
• Category Service: 3005
• RabbitMQ: 5673 (AMQP), 15673 (Management UI)
• Redis: 6380
• MongoDB: 27018

⚠️ Demo Project

This is a learning/demo project. Do not use in production. All credentials and secrets are for demonstration purposes only.