sairajsawant / comment-system

Realtime Commenting System

Realtime Commenting System

Single Page Application (SPA) to demonstrate real-time comments using MERN Stack.

Video Walkthrough of Realtime Commenting System

https://youtu.be/8bGpU7fMBU0

Installation

# Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/sairajsawant/comment-system.git

# Fire up MongoDB container
docker run -d -p 27017:27017 --restart unless-stopped --name commentsmongo mongo

# Fire up Redis container
docker run -d -p 6379:6379 --restart unless-stopped --name commentsredis redis

# Go into the backend directory
cd comment-system/backend

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start the server
npm start

# Go into main app directory
cd ..

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start the App
npm start

Features

• Realtime comments & upvotes/downvotes using WebSockets & Redis

• JWT based authorization

• Microservice architecture using Node.js & Express

• Caching in Redis & Persistent Storage in MongoDB using Mongoose ODM

• Container based development using Docker

Technology Stack

• Node.js
• React
• MongoDB
• Redis
• WebSockets
• JWT