Vamalaka - E-commerce international trading platform that helps people in Madagascar sell their products globally. It follows "Direct to Consumer" bussiness model

As an implementation technology we have chosen: TypeScript, React, Redux, Redux Tool Kit, Cypress for integration testing. Containerized backend that exposes GraphQL interface, MongoDB, NodeJS

Development setup

Backend

Requirements

docker and docker-compose installed on your machine

Installation

cd server

• build the project using

$ sudo docker-compose build

$ sudo docker-compose up

Or both

sudo docker-compose up --build

your GraphQL project will run on http://localhost:4000/graphql

• admin-mongo interface will be displayed on http://localhost:8082/

• add a random name to your connection and in the field connection string put the following connection string (mongodb://mongo/myappdb)

DB data archiving and restoring

After launching docker containers

To archive:

docker exec graphqlmongo sh -c 'exec mongodump -d myappdb --archive' > ./server/migrate/all-collections.archive

To restore:

docker exec -i graphqlmongo sh -c "mongorestore --archive" < ./server/migrate/all-collections.archive

Frontend

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

yarn

To install all required packages

yarn start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

yarn test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

yarn cypress:ci

To run ui integration tests

yarn storybook

Run storybook