DeeshanSharma / reddit-backend-microservices

Reddit backend clone with core functionality with microservice architecture using gRPC & Protocol Buffers for inter service communication

reddit-backend-microservices

A reddit core functionality clone with microservice architecture
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Reddit backend clone of core functionality with microservice architecture using gRPC & Protocol Buffers for inter service communication. Built while learning gRPC and exploring microservice architecture

💡Features

1. Microservice architecture
2. Uses gRPC & Protocol Buffers for inter service communication

⛏️Built with

• Node JS
• gRPC
• MongoDB

🏁Getting Started

These instructions will help you to setup your own copy of reddit-backend-microservices on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

📚Prerequisite

• Node JS
• MongoDB
• Protoc

🧰Installation

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/DeeshanSharma/reddit-backend-microservices.git

2. Go inside each service directory and install its dependencies

   pnpm i
   # or
   npm i
   # or
   yarn

3. Go inside each service directory and start the service

   pnpm start
   # or
   npm start
   # or
   yarn start

✍️Authors

• @DeeshanSharma - Initial Work

📖Contributing

"In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny." - Linus Torvalds

Contributions are what make the open source community an amazing place. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

📢Contributors

• @DeeshanSharma

💳License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

🧬Resources

• GRPC Official Docs
• Protocol Buffers Google Dev Docs
• Protobuf Github
• Building Reddit Backend using micro-services by Mano Sriram (YouTube)

🎉Acknowledgement

• Shields