Docker and local deployment tutorial

Installation

You can install docker for your computer from there
Since we use MongoDB as a database you can use MongoCompass. It is a useful GUI for DB management.

You can see docker-compose.yaml under the Disaster-Response-Platform folder. It is a configuration file used to define and run multi-container Docker applications. It allows you to specify a set of services, networks, and volumes for your application and define how they interact with each other. Run this command in this directory.

docker-compose up -d --build

This command will search Dockerfiles under the backend and frontend folders and create and run a container by using these dockerfiles.
Our backend uses 8000 and the frontend uses 3000 ports. So if your local ports are not empty this command will throw an error .
If you want to run containers one by one you can use

docker build -t frontend .
docker run -p 3000:3000 -d frontend

Or you ca write:

docker-compose up -d --build frontend

You can easily implement it for backend by just writing backend and 3000 instead of 8000.

You can see the definition of our database in docker-compose.yaml . If you want to just run the mongo on local you can use:

docker run -d -p 27017:27017 --name darpDB mongo

Or

docker-compose up -d --build mongo

Since MongoDB stores data in a schema-less format, unlike relational databases, There is no need to create tables (its name is collection in Mongo) at first. But you need to create a Database for the application. Our Database name is disasterApp for now. You can easily create the database on Mongodbcompass UI.
The backend team will initialize schemas while developing. But for now, It will be enough to run Mongo container.