A chatbot app that provides bi-directional chat functionality via gRPC. The backend uses NodeJS and Golang to serve various microservices. The frontend uses ReactJS and Ant Design.

The reason for this project is simply to experiment with building distributed applications using bleeding-edge technologies.

This project was built with containerization in mind, therefore bringing up the entire project is extremely straight forward, simply run docker-compose up --build and navigate to: http://localhost:8080.

• Clone the repository
• Download and install VS Code
• Install Docker
• Install Node, e.g. brew install node
• Running the system:
  • Execute docker-compose up from the project root directory.
  • Using a browser navigate to http://localhost:8080
• Stopping the system:
  • Execute docker-compose stop from the project root directory.
• Destroying the system:
  • Execute docker-compose down from the project root directory.
  • This will remove the containers that were created

This project uses Envoy, an L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. It wraps all of the microservices as well as the react app. This is the central entrypoint into the application for external consumers.

The frontend was built using ReactJS and written in Typescript. See the README in the frontend directory for further details.

The backend consists of various microservices and was built using NodeJS and Golang. See the README in the backend directory for further details.