asakaxgit / spawn-demo

Demo application to show how Spawn can be integrated in Development and CI

Spawn demo app

This app showcases a semi complex application that takes advantage of Spawn to simplify development.

Architecture

The application is a simple "Todo" application. It's architecture is as follows:

• C# ASP.NET Core WebAPI
• ReactJS Frontend
• Microsoft SQL Server database (for "account" information)
• PostgreSQL database (for "todo" item information)

Running in Gitpod

Click the badge below to open this repository in Gitpod with all of the dependencies installed and ready to go.

Running this locally

To get up and running with this application, perform the following:

1. Clone the repository
2. Open it up in VS Code
3. Hit F5

This will:

• Provision two Spawn data containers. One for the Todo database and another for the Account database.
• Start the API server with the configuration returned from Spawn to connect to the databases.
• Start the Frontend

NOTE: Running the application this way assumes that the spawn data images already exist. If they do not, you must create them.

The spawn data image names are configured in the .env file. You can change these if necessary.

Subsequent restarts

Subsequent restarts (F5) will reuse the spawn data containers. That means any modification to the database between restarts calls will persist.

If you want to get fresh containers, then you can delete the Spawn data containers and the startup script will reprovision them.