Full-Stack JavaScript Architecture

Opinionated project architecture for Full-Stack JavaScript Applications.

About

Using JavaScript for full-stack has always been a challenge especially with architecting various pieces of the application, choosing technologies and managing devOps. This project provides a base for typical project consisting a Landing Website, Web and Mobile Applications, API service and easy deployment of these services. This project uses a microservice architecture where all individual project runs as a service (container).

A typical product (SaaS, etc.) usually consists of following services:

• Landing page
  • Used for introducing your business to customers
  • Provide links to download the mobile application
  • Provide link to access web application
  • Contact page
  • Privacy policy page
  • Terms of use page
  • SEO friendly (should support server side rendering)
• Web Application
  • Your actual application for your customers to use
  • Desktop browser
  • Tablet and mobile browser via responsive design
• Mobile Application
  • Your actual application for your customers to use
  • Android (Mobile/Tablet)
  • iOS (Mobile/Tablet)

Core Structure

fsja
  ├── backend
  │   ├── api
  │   │   > NodeJS
  │   │   > PORT 8000
  │   │   > api.example.com
  │   │
  │   ├── database
  │   │   > MongoDB
  │   │   > PORT 27017
  │   │
  │   └── proxy
  │       > NGINX
  │       > PORT 80 / 443
  │
  ├── deployment
  │   > Docker Compose
  │
  ├── frontend
  │   ├── app
  │   │   ├── mobile
  │   │   │   > React Native
  │   │   │   > iOS (Apple App Store)
  │   │   │   > Android (Google Play Store)
  │   │   │
  │   │   └── web
  │   │       > React
  │   │       > Single page application
  │   │       > PORT 5000
  │   │       > app.example.com
  │   │
  │   └── landing
  │       > React
  │       > Server side rendered
  │       > PORT 3000
  │       > example.com
  │
  └── README.md (you are here)

Stack

Backend

• API
  • NodeJS
  • Express
• Database
  • MongoDB
• Proxy
  • NGINX

Frontend

• Landing

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Material UI
  • Server Side Rendering

• Web

  • React
  • Redux
  • React Router
  • Material UI

• Mobile (iOS, Android)

  • React Native
  • Redux
  • React Navigation

Deployment

• Technologies
  • Docker
  • Docker compose

Setup and Running

• Prerequisites

  • Node (v10.x)
  • MongoDB (v4.x)
  • Xcode (for iOS) (latest)
  • Android Studio (for Android) (latest)
  • Follow React Native Guide to setup your local machine

• Clone repository git clone [email protected]:atulmy/fullstack-javascript-architecture.git fullstack

• API

  • Info
    • Authentication strategy: JWT (JSON Web Token)
    • Current implementation uses RPC (Remote Procedure Call) for API endpoints (one endpoint URL, multiple operations) and can be easily replaced with REST.
    • Resources
      • Lightweight RPC API pattern
  • Switch to api directory cd backend/api
  • Configuration
    • Create local environment file cp .env.dev.example .env.local
    • Modify .env.local for
      • PORT (8000)
      • NODE_ENV (development | production)
      • SECURITY_SECRET (Use passwordsgenerator)
      • SECURITY_SALT_ROUNDS (10)
      • MONGO_URL (mongodb://localhost:27017/example)
      • LANDING_URL (http://localhost:3000)
      • WEB_URL (http://localhost:5000)
      • API_URL (http://localhost:8000)
      • EMAIL_ON (0 | 1 (in development, you can toggle to send emails or not))
      • EMAIL_TEST (send test emails to this address)
      • EMAIL_HOST, EMAIL_USER, EMAIL_PASSWORD (use any email service, eg. mailgun.com and get credentials to start sending emails
  • Setup
    • Install packages and seed database npm run setup
  • Run
    • Start API server: npm start (http://localhost:8000)

• Landing

  • Switch to landing directory cd frontend/landing
  • Configuration
    • Create local environment file cp .env.dev.example .env.local
    • Modify .env.local for
      • PORT (3000)
      • NODE_ENV (development | production)
      • URL_LANDING (http://localhost:3000)
      • URL_WEB (http://localhost:5000)
      • URL_API (http://localhost:8000)
      • GA_TRACKING_ID (Google analytics tracking ID)
  • Setup
    • Install dependencies: npm install
  • Run
    • Start Landing server: npm start, browse at http://localhost:3000
  • Resources
    • Use getterms.io to generate Privacy Policy / Terms of Use
    • Favicon generator realfavicongenerator

• Web

  • Switch to web directory cd frontend/app/web
  • Configuration
    • Create local environment file cp .env.dev.example .env.local
    • Modify .env.local for
      • PORT (5000)
      • REACT_APP_LANDING_URL (http://localhost:3000)
      • REACT_APP_WEB_URL (http://localhost:5000)
      • REACT_APP_API_URL (http://localhost:8000)
  • Setup
    • Install dependencies: npm install
  • Run
    • Start Web server: npm start, browse at http://localhost:5000

• Deployment

  • Deploy code
    1. Login to the server (SSH)
    2. Create a new directory on server: mkdir /var/www/fullstack and switch to the directory cd /var/www/fullstack
    3. Clone repository git clone [email protected]:atulmy/fullstack-javascript-architecture.git .
    4. Switch to deployment directory cd deployment
    5. Build containers docker-compose up --build -d
       • up = Builds, (re)creates, starts, and attaches to containers for a service.
       • --build = Build images before starting containers
       • -d = Detached mode: Run containers in the background, print new container names
    6. Re-deploy with following steps:
       • Change directory cd /var/www/fullstack
       • Pull latest code git pull
       • Rebuild containers: docker-compose up --build -d
  • Resources
    • Set Up Free SSL Certificates from Let's Encrypt using Docker and Nginx

• Mobile

  • Switch to mobile directory cd frontend/app/mobile
  • Configuration
    • Modify src/setup/config/env.js for
      • APP_ENV (development | production)
      • LANDING_URL (http://<your local network IP>:3000)
      • WEB_URL (http://<your local network IP>:5000)
      • API_URL (http://<your local network IP>:8000)
      • Tip: use ifconfig on macOS or Linux to get your local IP address
  • Setup
    • Install dependencies: npm install
  • Run
    • iOS react-native run-ios --simulator='iPhone 8'
    • Android react-native run-android (connect your Android phone via USB or use already created simulator with name Mobile_-_5 by running cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/tools && ./emulator -avd Mobile_-_5)
  • Publish
    • Android
      • Build: cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease && cd ...
      • Upload frontend/app/mobile/android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk to Play Store.
    • iOS
      • Build: Open frontend/app/mobile/ios/example.xcodeproj in Xcode -> Choose Generic iOS Device (top left) -> Product (top menu) -> Archive.
      • Upload using Archiver (will open automatically once Archive is complete)
  • Resources
    • From react-native init to app stores real quick
    • iOS App icon and splashscreen generator appicon
    • Icon generator makeappicon
    • Icons and splashscreen generator imagegorilla

Screenshots

View all screenshots here.

Landing
Web
Mobile

Authors

• Atul Yadav - GitHub · Twitter

Collaborators

• Hossein Nedaee - GitHub
• [YOUR NAME HERE] - Feel free to contribute to the codebase by resolving any open issues, refactoring, adding new features, writing test cases or any other way to make the project better and helpful to the community. Feel free to fork and send pull requests.

Resources and Inspirations

• 💁‍♂️ Hand picked collection of packages, tutorials and more for React Native - GitHub
• 🌱 Lightweight (remote procedure call) API pattern - GitHub
• 🛡 A simple validation library for server and client side applications - GitHub • NPM
• 🌐 Universal react application with server side rendering - GitHub
• 📦 A sample web and mobile application built with Node, Express, React, React Native and Redux - GitHub
• Start learning by looking at sample codes on GitHub: #LearnByExamples

Hire me

Looking for a developer to build your next idea or need a developer to work remotely? Get in touch: [email protected]

Donate

If you liked this project, you can donate to support it ❤️

Thank you for donating:

• Oleg Serbin

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Atul Yadav http://github.com/atulmy

The MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)