CourseDragon is a MERN REST app. To start it, it is broken into 3 Parts:

• Frontend (React)
• Backend (Node/Express)
• Database (Mongo)

First, install Node (you mayneed to instal brew first, if you are on a mac)

brew install node

To setup, you must install node_modules by doing the following:

cd root/backend
npm install

cd root/frontend
npm install

There are 2 methods to running the application:

1. Docker start
2. Manual start

• For Docker start, run the following commands (this is the docker-compose method):

cd root
docker-compose up --build

To test that it has started correctly, you can do the following:

• For Docker start, run the following commands (this is the docker run method):

• List all docker images

docker image ls

• Docker build each of the images (frontend-image and backend-image)(mongo image does not need to be created, as it is a standard image)

cd root/frontend
docker build -t course-dragon-frontend-image .

cd root/backend
docker build -t course-dragon-backend-image .

• Docker run

docker run --name course-dragon-backend-app -d -p 4001:4001 -v $(pwd):/server course-dragon-backend-image

docker run --name db -d -p 27017:27017 mongo

docker run --name course-dragon-frontend-app -d -p 3000:3000 -v $(pwd)/public:/client/public -v $(pwd)/src:/client/src -v $(pwd)/deploy.sh:/client/deploy.sh -v $(pwd)/index.html:/client/index.html -v $(pwd)/react.vite.config.js:/client/react.vite.config.js -v $(pwd)/vite.config.js:/client/vite.config.js -dit course-dragon-frontend-image

• See all running docker containers

docker ps -a

• Send commands to docker container (in bash)

docker exec -it course-dragon-backend-app bash

docker exec -it course-dragon-frontend-app bash

• Close the docker container

docker rm course-dragon-backend-app -f

docker rm course-dragon-frontend-app -f

docker rm mongo-db -f

cd root/frontend

npm install

npm start

Connect to the Website on https://localhost:3000

cd root/backend

npm install

npm start

Make sure that it's working: curl localhost:4001 If result looks like this then it is working:

(base) username@your-computer ~ % curl localhost:4001
home get greeting%

Install MongoDB

Create a directory /data/db

Run MongoDB using this command

mongod --port 27017 --dbpath /Users/sebastianbarry/data/db

Make sure that it's working: curl localhost:27017 If result looks like this then it is working:

(base) username@your-computer ~ % curl localhost:27017
It looks like you are trying to access MongoDB over HTTP on the native driver port.