MC.fmly Inventory System

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Inventory System specifically built for MC.fmly.

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Table of Contents:

Specification

• Architecture
• Front-End
• Back-End
• Database
• Tools

Development

• Prerequisites
• Installing Dependencies
• Development
  • Web App
  • Desktop
• Production
  • Web App
  • Desktop
• Testing (Planned)

Misc

• License

Architecture

MERN Stack Architecture

Front-End:

• react - Component-based UI
• electron - X-Platform Desktop Integration
• react-bootstrap - UI Toolkit for React
• styled-components - ES6+ Component Styling
• Sass/Scss - CSS Preprocessor
• MongoDB Charts - Embeddable Charts & Data Analytics

Back-End:

• Node.js - Web Server
• express - Server-side Framework
• mongoose - Object Modeling
• axios - HTTP Client
• react-query - Data & State Synchronization
• node-argon2 - Node.js bindings for Argon2 hashing algorithm
  • Argon2 - A password-hashing function that summarizes the state of the art in the design of memory-hard functions and can be used to hash passwords for credential storage, key derivation, or other applications.

Database:

• MongoDB - Document database

Tools

• Vercel - Web/Client Deployment (Front-End)
• Heroku - Server/API Deployment (Back-End)
• Datadog - Server/Database Metrics Monitoring
• LogDNA - Log Management
• Rollbar - Error Tracking Software
• GitHub Actions - Continuous Integration
• CircleCI - Continuous Integration (Fallback)
• CodeFactor - Code Review
• SonarCloud - Code Quality & Security
• Snyk - Dependency Security & Exploit POC
• WhiteSource Renovate - Automated Dependency Updates

See package.json in both workspace for complete dependency list.

Prerequisites

• Node.js v14.15.0+ - Package manager
• yarn v1.22+ - Package & Project manager
• MongoDB Cluster - MongoDB Cluster URI

Windows:

• windows-build-tools

npm i -g windows-build-tools # Should be in elevated shell.

Linux:

• Debian
  • dpkg
  • dpkg-dev

sudo apt install dpkg dpkg-dev

• Red Hat
  • rpm

sudo yum install rpm

replace yum with your distro package provider.

MacOS

• rpm

brew install rpm

Optional:

• Postman - API Testing
• MongoDB Compass - MongoDB GUI

Environment Variables

Create .env files for both projects.

Server ./server/.env

• MONGO_URL - Required (Production)
• MONGO_ADMIN - Required (Admin)
• ROLLBAR_ID - Rollbar Error Tracking (Server)
• INGESTION_KEY - LogDNA Log Management

Client ./client/.env

• REACT_APP_API - Required Server deployment URL (Production)
• REACT_APP_LOCAL_API - Required Local server deployment URL (Development)
• REACT_APP_GITHUB_URL - Required GitHub Repo (GitHub API)
• REACT_APP_ROLLBAR_TOKEN - Rollbar Error Tracking (Client)

See .env pre-configured templates:

• ./server/.env.template - Server

• ./client/.env.template - Client

Example:

MONGO_URL=Your URI Here

Do not add quotation marks between values!

Development

This project uses yarn's workspaces to seperate the Front-End and the Back-End and run scripts without navigating back & forth to project folders.

Hoisting is set to "*" to avoid compilation problems regarding missing dependencies.

You have to install all dependencies before running any of the scripts.

yarn

Web App:

yarn web

Desktop:

yarn start

Production

Web App:

This project uses Vercel as its front-end provider, and Heroku as its back-end provider to bypass Vercel's 12 API endpoint limit.

Client

yarn build

Output in ./client/build directory. Ready to deploy to hosting.

Server

Start ./server/server.js

cross-env NODE_ENV=production node server.js

or

yarn workspace server start

See Procfile.

You can also use other provider such as DigitalOcean, AWS, etc...

Desktop:

The desktop version on production relies on loading the web app. You need to deploy the web app, then change the loadURL link in ./client/public/electron.js.

yarn workspace client package-[os]

Where os can be one of the ff:

• all - all platforms (win, mac, linux)
• win - Windows x64 (x32 architecture is not supported.)
• mac - MacOS 10+
• linux - deb/rpm installer based on current linux system.
• ci - For continuous integrations. Automatic OS Detection.

Output on /release directory.

NOTE

Packaging the desktop app depends on the current system you have.

Running linux or mac on a win system will throw an error due to missing required tools.

Packaging the desktop app for linux can be made in win system inside WSL with fulfilled prerequisites.

Testing

Unit tests is planned

License

This work is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.

License not applicable in actual business use.