Playground

A playground of databases, microservices and UI clients for trying new testing tools. This takes form as a fictional product order shop.

All of the below are able to run locally via docker.

UI Applications

• A react based app that has a typical inventory display (display products, view products, display reviews, pagination, search etc)

Microservices

• A microservice used by the UI application to retrieve products
• A microservice used by the UI application to accept, store and retrieve reviews for products

Databases

• A postgres SQL database used to store products

Testing

Given the above "landscape", it enables several types of testing to take place:

• UI

  • E2E UI tests (playwright)
  • Integration tests (mocking backend microservices)
  • Unit tests

• API

  • E2E API tests
  • Integration tests (database testing, schema validation, contract testing)
  • Unit tests

Local Env

The UI app, microservices and database can be run locally via Docker. scripts are also available for ease of setup.

Traefik is used as a reverse proxy so that all services can be accessed via localhost e.g:

https://localhost/products points to the products controller
https://localhost/reviews points to the reviews controller
etc

Ultimately this makes things a bit easier to find and access rather than memorising port numbers.