Technology

This app is being developed as Full Stack: React on the front end, Node for the backend and server, and MongoDb holding the data. Hosting is currently on Heroku to provide a simple pipeline and deployment process. The internal API is served on the same domain.

The technologies were selected with a few things in mind: 1) To be beginner friendly, yet be using robust industry standards, 2) To provide a framework and platform for all other brigades to use as a service (and a great first project for their volunteers!), and 3) To ease the development process through containerization.

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Stack

Front End

• React
• React Router
• React Hooks
• React Context
• Sass
• Vite
• MUI

Back End

• Node
• Express
• Mongoose

Database

• MongoDB

Testing

• Mocha/Chai
• React Testing Library

Infrastructure

For all versions and environments, domain services are handled by AWS Route 53 and dev and prod mongodb are on mongodb atlas.

• Docker
• Heroku
• AWS Elastic Container Service
• Mailhog
• AWS Route 53

Infrastructure v.3 Dev

https://dev.vrms.io/ is deployed to the aws incubator-prod cluster as the vrms-backend-dev and vrms-client-dev services.

Infrastructure v.3 Prod

https://www.vrms.io/ client and backend are deployed to Heroku. It's unclear currently who owns this account. For the next v.3 production release, the goal is to deploy the client and backend to the aws incubator-prod cluster.

Authentication

• Email link sign-on - v.3
• AWS Cognito - v.4

APIs

• Meetup
• LinkedIn
• Github

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