Landing page Fresa - MERN stack docker (Mysql Express React Nodejs)

• Use Express Nodejs as backend
• Use React script as frontend
• Use MySQL as the database (v8)
• Include self-signed SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt localhost format)
• You can use make command to build fast

Table of contents

• Host requirements
• Configuration
• Deploy
• Teardown
• Notes

Host requirements

Both Docker and Docker Compose are required on the host to run this code

• Install Docker Engine: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
• Install Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Configuration

Copy the env.example file as .env in both folder backend & frontend then populate according to your environment Create ssl folder in backend folder and copy your fullchain.pem & privatekey.pem

Deploy

Once configured the containers can be brought up using Docker Compose

1. Set the environment variables and build the images

   docker-compose build

2. Bring up the landing page containers

   docker-compose up -d 

   After a few moments the containers should be observed as running

   $ docker-compose ps
   Name                  Command               State                                   Ports
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   landingpage   docker-entrypoint.sh pm2-r ...   Up      0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp,:::443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp,:::80->80/tcp

Teardown

For a complete teardown all containers must be stopped and removed along with the volumes and network that were created for the application containers

Commands

docker-compose stop
docker-compose down

Notes

Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate

Use: https://github.com/RENCI-NRIG/ez-letsencrypt - A shell script to obtain and renew Let's Encrypt certificates using Certbot's --webroot method of certificate issuance.