The app allows users to advertise their cars on an auction platform and enables other users to bid on these cars. It's designed to offer a real-time auction experience with a bidding system and live auction features.
- Next.js & React.js with TypeScript: I chose these for the frontend to leverage React's component-based architecture, enhanced with TypeScript for type safety and better developer experience.
- Tailwind CSS: For styling, Tailwind CSS offers a utility-first approach, making it easy to design responsive and aesthetically pleasing UIs.
- C# & .NET Web API
- Entity Framework
- RabbitMQ and gRPC: These are employed as service buses for efficient inter-service communication.
- Microsoft YARP: Acts as a gateway, routing requests to appropriate services.
- SignalR: For real-time push notifications to the client app.
- Docker: Utilized for containerizing the services
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- GitHub Actions: Implements CI/CD workflows, automating the testing and deployment process.
- Docker Compose: For local development and testing.
- Unit and Integration Testing: To ensure backend quality.
- Kubernetes Deployment: For orchestrating and scaling services in a cloud environment.
- Identity Server: Ensures that the application is secure, managing authentication and authorization effectively.
You can run this app locally on your computer by following these instructions:
- Using your terminal or command prompt clone the repo onto your machine in a user folder
git clone https://github.com/Elham-EN/AutoBidMaster-app.git - Change into the Carsties directory
cd AutoBidMaster - Ensure you have Docker Desktop installed on your machine. If
- Build the services locally on your computer by running (NOTE: this may take several minutes to complete):
docker compose build - Once this completes you can use the following to run the services:
docker compose up -d - To see the app working you will need to provide it with an SSL certificate. To do this please install 'mkcert' onto your computer which you can get from here. Once you have this you will need to install the local Certificate Authority by using:
mkcert -install - You will then need to create the certificate and key file on your computer to replace the certificates that I used. You will need to change into the 'devcerts' directory and then run the following command:
cd devcerts mkcert -key-file autobidmaster.com.key -cert-file autobidmaster.com.crt app.autobidmaster.com api autobidmaster.com id.autobidmaster.com - You will also need to create an entry in your host file so you can reach the app by its domain name. Please use this guide if you do not know how to do this. Create the following entry:
127.0.0.1 id.autobidmaster.com app.autobidmaster.com api.autobidmaster.com - You should now be able to browse to the app on https://app.autobidmaster.com