Mix Answer

Overview

Mix Answer is a Question & Answer platform, a StackOverflow like tool.

Technologies

Mix Answer uses modern tools

• Docker #containers
• Python 3.6 #server
• PostgreSQL #database
• Tornado #server
• ReactJS #frontend

Development

• Setup

# Build images
docker-compose build

# Run containers
docker-compose up -d

# Init database
docker-compose run --rm --no-deps mix-answer-server python scripts/init_db.py --config config/dev.conf --data_test true

• You can now access the UI

http://localhost:8080

DB Class Diagram

https://www.lucidchart.com/documents/embeddedchart/963a601e-0870-45c2-871f-acdb405c5090

Tests

# Build and tag the test image
docker build -t mix-answer-test \
             -f server/tests/Dockerfile \
             server

# Start the test DB container
docker run -d \
           -e POSTGRES_USER=mixuser \
           -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mixuser \
           -e POSTGRES_DB=mixanswer \
           --name mix-answer-test-db \
           postgres:10.3

# Initialize the test DB
docker run -t --rm \
           -v /$PWD/server:/home/server \
           --link mix-answer-test-db:db \
           mix-answer-test \
           python scripts/init_db.py --config=config/test.conf

# Run test
docker run --rm -it \
           -v /$PWD/server:/home/server \
           --link mix-answer-test-db:db \
           mix-answer-test \
           pytest -v

Deployment

1. Copy the docker-compose-prod.yml file on the server you want to deploy the tool
2. Run docker-compose up -d it will automatically pull the images and start the services
3. Init the DB docker-compose run --rm --no-deps mix-answer-server python scripts/init_db.py --config config/prod.conf

Roadmap

Open roadmap

Contribution

• Please use flake8 (Python) and eslint (JavaScript) as syntax linter
• Please write and run the tests before to submit a Pull Request
• Please open a Pull Request for review