The codebase follows monorepo architecture and uses pnpm workspaces that significantly save more memory on disk and installs packages faster than npm. The reason I chose this architecture to have a great developer experience as I don't need wait for npm to finish installing duplicate node_modules. pnpm checks if the module exists or not if it exists it simply links the module to the package you are trying to install it to. For more information visit pnpm. Though it's monorepo the packages(i.e. backend/frontend) can be deployed to separate containers. And I included this approach when deploying it using docker. Every package is a independent unit of it's own.
docker compose up --build
- MongoDB should be installed or you can spin up a MongoDB Container & change the MONGO_URI defined in backend/.env.local. Also, you can use only the mongodb service defined in docker-compose.yaml and comment out the other services. This way you don't need to change the MONGO_URI defined in the backend/.env.local file.
- Run from the root directory
npm i -g pnpm - Then run
pnpm install - After that you can run
pnpm -r start:dev. It will start both the frontend and backend simultaneously and you should be able to read the logs for both applications. - There are also some custom commands you can try out by looking inside the root directory's package.json file