This is a blog site designed with microservices architecture using Spring Cloud Netflix features, Kotlin as a main server side language and Angular for user interface parts.

• Spring Framework 5 with Webflux/Reactor
• Spring Boot 2.0
• Spring Cloud Netflix 2.0
• Spring Webflux Security with JWT
• Kotlin 1.2
• Angular 6
• Gradle 4.10 with Kotlin Script and jUnit 5
• Docker

1. Node 8+
2. Yarn
3. JRE 8+
4. Docker

• Config Server: A Spring Boot application which provides configs (yml files) to all other services. Should be run first.
• Service Discovery: A Spring Boot application with embedded Service Discovery Server (Eureka server). Each other services except Config Server are registered in it and can access each other by names instead of host-port combination using Api Gateway Router service. Should be run second.
• Frontend: A Spring Boot application with Angular parts. Contains embedded Api Gateway Router (Zuul), Client Side Load Balancer (Ribbon) and Service Discovery Client (Eureka client) which help to redirect requests to Api service instances registered in Service Discovery Server.
• API: A Spring Boot application with backend information for the Frontend. Includes Spring Security parts to provide Json Web Tokens and validate them.

1. Set environment variables

   SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=local
   SPRING_CLOUD_CONFIG_SERVER_GIT_URI=<path-to-config-repo>
   

   where <path-to-config-repo> can be a path to local or remote git repository with config files, e.g. file://${user.home}/awesome-blog-config-repo or https://github.com/naXa777/awesome-blog-config-repo.

2. Run Config Server instance

   ./gradlew config-server:bootRun
   

   Check that it's running: go to http://localhost:9000/actuator/health

3. Run Service Discovery instance

   ./gradlew service-discovery:bootRun
   

   Check that it's running: go to http://localhost:9001/

4. Run API instance

   ./gradlew api:bootRun
   

   Check that it's running: go to http://localhost:8081/api/echo

5. Run Frontend instance

   ./gradlew frontend:bootRun
   

   Check that it's running: go to http://localhost:8082