Student Net

A student net for students of The University of Winnipeg.

Setup

Prerequisites

Note: You can skip any of these prerequisites if you have them installed already.

Git

Follow the instructions on Git docs to download and install git for your system.

Docker

Follow the instructions on the Docker Engine docs page to download and install Docker for your system (i.e. Windows, Mac, etc).

To check you've set it up correctly, run docker --version and it should be one of the later versions, i.e. ^20.10.

Note: You don't really need to fiddle much with Docker for this project since it is mostly just a tool that helps you set up a development environment. Although, Docker is required for Docker Compose to work and that's something you'll use in this project.

Useful docker commands are available at the docker CLI docs.

Docker Compose

Once you have Docker, follow the instructions on the Docker Compose docs page to download and install Docker Compose for your system.

Also, docker-compose is available through PyPi. You can download it by running pip3 install docker-compose.

To check you've set it up correctly, run docker-compose --version and it should be one of the later versions, i.e. ^1.25.

Some important docker-compose commands

docker-compose up -d: Starts the services (as a daemon, aka in the background) described in the docker-compose.yml file located in the same directory.
docker-compose down: Stops the services described in the docker-compose.yml file located in the same directory.
docker-compose ps: Lists the services that exist currently. Note that it shows all services regardless of whether it is dead or alive.
docker-compose logs -f --tail 10 <service>: Streams the 10 recent-most lines of logs of a particular service. This is very helpful for debugging when some of your services die (terminate) unexpectedly. Note that if you <Ctrl-C> to exit the log stream it will not stop the services, rather only the logs.
docker-compose restart <service>: Restart a given service. Helpful if some service just died and you want to try breathing life into it.
docker-compose build <service>: Builds a given service as described by the context Dockerfile from the description of the service in the docker-compose.yml
More commands available in the docker-compose CLI docs.

Student-Net NextJS + MySQL Project (Development Environment)

Clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/UWCodeForce/student-net.git

Navigate to the directory: cd student-net
Create a .env file inside of the cd web directory.
```
DB_HOST=db
DB_USER=root
DB_PASS=root
DB_DATABASE=studentnet
DB_PORT=3306
```
The host should be set to db if using the Docker compose. If running the services manually, use localhost instead.
Start the Docker containers
```
docker-compose up -d
```
To view the site in the development mode, navigate to http://localhost:3000 from a browser.
Try changing some of the HTML/CSS/JS content in ./web/pages/_app.js (or wherever really, as long as it is inside ./web) to see live changes on the page.

In fact, any changes you make to the files in student-net/web/ will automatically trigger a re-render of the page from within your Docker container so you don't have to start/stop any server or even refresh the page. Sometimes, it may happen that you break some part of the app and save the file. For example, if you have <di>Forgot a 'v' in 'div'. Oh no!</div> in your code it will cause the app to break.

In such a scenario, just correct the file and reload the page. This should fix the error and start the live-reloaded page should start working like previously.

Note: When you wish to take a break from working on this project, you don't have to shut down any servers either.

To shut down all the services, just run:
```
docker-compose down
```
This will keep your changes to the files but should you choose to discard them, it is as easy as running git restore <file> on files you don't want to keep the changes for.
Don't forget to keep committing your updates as you keep changing/adding new content to this NextJS app.
Done! You've successfully set up the development environment for the Student Net project in a few simple steps.

Now it is time to write some code! :sunglasses:

(Optional) Peek into the sample container

```sh
docker run --rm -it aalekhpatel07/student-net:js /bin/bash
```
Then `ls` (or `dir` for Windows) to see the contents of the container. This is where your code is run. The serving port of this container and your local host are connected (i.e. *bound*) virtually through `- ports` section in the `docker-compose.yml` file.

This allows you to make an HTTP request to the internal network of the docker container through `localhost:3000` of your host machine.

Student-Net NextJS + MySQL Project (Production Environment)

Update the docker-compose.prod.yml file with the credentials and run docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d to access the production version of the site at http://localhost/, which then you can expose to the rest of the internet by forwarding ports 80/443 from your wifi router to the server that you run this command in.

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