The Internet Checkpoint

Description

The Internet Checkpoint is a project which aims to be an homage to the initial Internet Checkpoint that could initially be found on the now deleted Youtube channel TAIA777.

Demo Production Environment

A demonstration of The Internet Checkpoint can be found here.

Installation

The first step towards installing this project on a machine is to clone it using the following command:

git clone git@github.com:Assifar-Karim/The-Internet-Chkpt.git

NOTE: For the application to fully work, locally, modify the application.yml file's database link to a link to a database instance you own either on Mongo Atlas or locally and setup your own google oauth2 configuration and email address

Local Installation

• Frontend: Go to the Frontend directory and run: npm install
• Backend: Go to the Backend directory and run: ./mvnw compile

Docker Installation

• Frontend: Go to the Frontend directory and run: docker build -t ticp-front .
• Backend: Go to the Backend directory and run: docker build -t ticp-back .

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your machine/containers or development environment:

• MONGO_DB_USERNAME
• MONGO_DB_PASSWORD
• JWT_SECRET_KEY
• MAIL_PASSWORD
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET
• GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID
• ENVIRONMENT
• REDIS_HOST
• REDIS_PORT
• CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN
• SERVER_LOCATION

How To Use?

After all the of the preliminary setup is done you can start using hosting the app by following one these 3 methods:

NOTE: For the backend to work a Redis instance needs to be running on your machine. You can either install it locally or through a docker container.

Run It Locally

NOTE: Running the app locally will be through dev mode and the resulting output is not production based

• Backend: Run the command ./mvnw spring-boot:run
• Frontend: Run the command npm start

Run It With Docker

• Backend: Run the following command

docker run -p 8080:8080 --name ticp-backend \
-e MONGO_DB_USERNAME=$MONGO_DB_USERNAME \
-e MONGO_DB_PASSWORD=$MONGO_DB_PASSWORD \
-e JWT_SECRET_KEY=$JWT_SECRET_KEY \
-e MAIL_PASSWORD=$MAIL_PASSWORD \
-e GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=$GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET \
-e GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID=$GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID \
-e ENVIRONMENT=$ENVIRONMENT \
-e REDIS_HOST=$REDIS_HOST \
-e REDIS_PORT=$REDIS_PORT \
-e CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN=$CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGIN \
ticp-back

• Frontend: Run the following command

docker run -p 80:80 -e SERVER_LOCATION=$SERVER_LOCATION --name ticp-frontend ticp-front

Recommendation: You can also decide to run the app using docker compose by using the docker compose up command.

Run It With Kubernetes

Start by creating a secrets manifest file, called ticp-secret.yml that contains the secrets that are referenced by the backend manifest. Then run the following command:

kubectl apply -f k8s

Tech Stack

• Client Side: ReactJS
• Server Side: Spring Boot | Nginx | MongoDB | Redis
• QA: JUnit 5 | Mockito | Spring Boot Tests
• Deployment tools: Docker | Kubernetes
• CI/CD: Circle CI

THE INTERNET CHECKPOINT | TICP TEAM 2022