food-diary

Track your food and see your calories

see it in action

What is included

• ExpressJS
• Mongoose/MongoDB
• Docker and docker-compose setup files
• React with common plugins
• Typescript support
• Eslint
• Prettier
• ApolloJS/GraphQL

Development Steps

Create an Auth0 application (you'll need the CLIENT_ID and DOMAIN for the steps below)

Copy the .env.example file and modify it as necessary.

Edit the ./client/.env.development environment file as necessary.

Run docker-compose up

Production

Currently this application is deployed using dokku.

It is hosted on DigitalOcean.

Provisioning the target machine

SSH into production host

$ ssh root@<domain>

Create swap file

# There may be some issues with permissions, just set the permissons as
# necessary (and possibly `swapoff /swapfile` before doing so)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=1024000
mkswap /swapfile
swapon /swapfile

Create app in dokku

$ dokku apps:create <app_name>

Set up all environment variables

$ dokku config:set <app_name> VAR=value

Map port 80 to 8000

$ dokku proxy:ports-add <app_name> http:80:8000

Install letsencrypt plugin

$ dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-letsencrypt.git

Setup letsencrypt

$ dokku config:set --no-restart <app_name> DOKKU_LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=<your_email>
$ dokku letsencrypt <app_name>

Releasing new code

$ git remote add dokku dokku@<hostname>:<app_name>
$ git push dokku master

TODO

• Remove './client/.env file and use env vars on target machine

Tips

VSCode eslint highlighting

There are two folders with different eslint configurations. In order to enable highlighting for the client and /src folders you need to specify the working directories in your settings.json file.

  "eslint.workingDirectories": [
    "./client", "./src"
  ]