Simple project to quickly start developing a Scala-based microservice or web application.
In order to build and develop on Bootzooka foundations you need the following:
Because (as said before) Bootzooka consists of two separate applications, in development you need to run both separately. This way the server-side code can be reloaded independently of the frontend code: if, for example, you make a small change to an HTML file, thanks to live-reload you’ll see the changes immediately, rebuilding and reloading only the frontend part, while the server is running undisturbed.
NOTE: This is not the case in production by default. When the final fat-jar application package or docker image is built it contains both client and server parts.
Bootzooka uses PostgreSQL to store data, so you will need the database running to use the application. By default, Bootzooka uses the bootzooka database using the postgres user, connecting to a server running on localhost:5432. This can be customised in the application.conf file.
You can either use a stand-alone database, a docker image (see the docker-compose.yml file), or any other PostgreSQL instance.
To run the backend server part, enter the main directory and type ./backend-start.sh or backend-start.bat depending on your OS.
To run the frontend server part, enter the main directory and type ./frontend-start.sh. This should open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser (frontend listens on port 3000, backend on port 8080; so all backend HTTP requests will be proxied to port 8080).
For details of frontend build and architecture please refer to the frontend docs.