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Project Directory Structure

 nxg_fec
   ├── django-backend
   ├── front-end
   └── selenium

/nxg_fec

This is the projects root. It contains all of the necessary files and directories to locally run the application

/django-backend

Contains all files and directories to build the API used by the front end. Written in python3 currently runs Django framework version 1.11.18

/front-end

Angular driven front end that makes api calls to the back end

/selenium

This directory contains a java driven testing application.

Prerequisites

Software necessary to run the application locally

Docker version 18.06.1-ce
docker-compose version 1.22.0 nodejs version 10.7.0 npm version 6.4.1

Starting the application

To start the application in a unix environment run launcher. The launcher will run through the following steps

• remove any angular dist and node_modules directories
• run npm install in the front-end directory
• shutdown any running docker instances
• remove all docker images
• build new docker images
• run docker containers in the background
• run django migrations
• print running containers.

docker basic usage.

when running docker-compose you will need to be in the root directory of the project. The reason for this is that docker-compose looks for docker-compose.yml to be in the same directory where it's run

Build the application

docker-compose build

Run the containers after being built

docker-compose up -d Alternatively if you have made changes to the application and need to push the changes to a container docker-compose up --build -d will build the containers then start them.

Shut down the containers

docker-compose down

see all running containers

docker ps

running commands in a running container

docker compose exec <container name> <command>

Container structure

        _____________________
        | Angular front end |
        |   Port "80:80"    |
        ---------------------
                  |
        _____________________
        | Django backed API |
        | Port "8080:8080"  |
        ---------------------
                  |
        _______________________
        | PostgreSQL Database |
        | Port "5432:5432"    |
        -----------------------