Messenger

The client is a single-page app built with React, Redux, ES6+, and webpack.

The backend is managed with Docker Compose. Containers:

name	description	technology
nginx	front-end proxy, static file server	Nginx
web	API server	Django REST framework
realtime	notification server	Node.js, Primus
queue	message broker	RabbitMQ
worker	queue worker	Celery
db	database	PostgreSQL

Running

Create a Docker machine

docker-machine create messenger.local --driver virtualbox
eval $(docker-machine env messenger.local)

(Optional) Add messenger.local to your hosts file:

echo "$(docker-machine ip messenger.local) messenger.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Set up Docker Composer

export COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=messenger COMPOSE_FILE=docker-compose/development.yml