Review Microservice

• The review microservice is responsible for creating and managing sellers and buyers reviews.
• In this service, events are only published to other microservices.
• Server side errors from the review microservice is sent to elasticsearch and can be viewed on kibana.
• Review service uses these tools as the main tools
  • Your shared library
  • NodeJS
  • Express
  • Typescript
  • Rabbitmq
  • Elasticsearch
  • Postgresql database
  • NodeJS pg
  • Json web token
  • SocketIO
• There are other packages that are used.
• You can update the version of NodeJS used inside the Dockerfile and Dockerfile.dev.
• Make sure you already have your own shared library published.
• Copy the .npmrc file from your shared library folder and replace ${NPM_TOKEN} with the actual personal access token you created.
• Once you have your .npmrc and before you run npm install command, replace all occurrences of @uzochukwueddie/jobber-shared with your own shared library.
• After replacing all occurrences of @uzochukwueddie/jobber-shared, you can then run npm install command.
• Copy contents of .env.dev to .env file
  • In the DATABASE_HOST env variable, use your own ip as its value.
  • You can generate a new GATEWAY_JWT_TOKEN and JWT_TOKEN
    • Just note that whatever you generate, that is what you will need to use in all the microservices that require those variables.
• You can start the service with npm run dev.

Create docker images

• You can create your own docker image from this microservice.
• Create an account on hub.docker.com or login if you already have one.
• Make sure to login on your terminal as well.
• Steps to build and push your image to docker hub
  • docker build -t <your-dockerhub-username>/jobber-review .
  • docker tag <your-dockerhub-username>/jobber-review <your-dockerhub-username>/jobber-review:stable
  • docker push <your-dockerhub-username>/jobber-review:stable