Hello elastic world

A boilerplate for a scalable web app including the whole infrastructure, using docker-compose for local developement and aws elastic beanstalk to deploy for production.

Feature list

• react web app
• node backend
  • hot reload in local dev environment
  • use chrome://inspect/ to debug in local dev environment
• postgres db
  • dockerized for local dev environment
  • works out of the box with a aws rds postgres data tier set up in aws elastic beanstalk instance
• nginx proxy

Pending features

• pubsub using postgres notification mechanism, redis & websockets
• some client side flux architecture using pubsub
• solid user management with single sign on

Run local dev environment

docker-compose up

Setup production

• create amazon aws account (e.g. with free tier)
• create amazon IAM user
• Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
• Install the Elastic Beanstalk Command Line Interface (EB CLI)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3-install.html?icmpid=docs_elasticbeanstalk_console

eb init
eb create CHOOSE_NAME

Setup postgres database

Deploy production

git commit
eb deploy