What it is

This is a boilerplate that has the following stack:

1. React - frontend
2. Laravel - backend
3. Docker - development and deployment container tool
4. Jenkins - CI/CD
5. Xdebug - debugging
6. Codeception - backend testing
7. Jest & Enzyme - frontend testing
8. AWS - deployment platform All setup steps are described below so that you can easily start developing.

Development

1. Go to docker and run docker-compose up and if you want to rebuild php container add --build

Frontend

1. Your starting point is ./src/App.js. Here you have to Context API Providers:

• ThemeProvider - allows you to pass theme data to all components
• UserProvider - allows you to pass user data to all components. User can be changed via reducer Protected Routes authorize users based on allowedRoles prop. Don't worry authorization is done on backend as well.

2. All other elements are in Components, Containers & Context folders.
3. Signin & Signup containers allow to create and authenticate user

Frontend Dependencies

React - core of the project, JS library ReactDOM - allows to render DOM in React

Axios - AJAX request tool

Webpack - JS bundler, collect js, html, css etc. into one or several bundles for lazy loading Webpack CLI - CLI utility for Webpack

Lodash - TO BE CHECKED

Babel-core - Transforms your ES6 code into ES5 Babel-loader - Webpack helper to transform your JavaScript dependencies (for example, when you import your components into other components) with Babel Babel-preset-env - Determines which transformations/plugins to use and polyfills (provide modern functionality on older browsers that do not natively support it) based on the browser matrix you want to support Babel-preset-react - Babel preset for all React plugins, for example turning JSX into functions Babel-plugin-proposal-class-properties - allows to use state = {} in React

styled-components - used for styling components instead of CSS. Adds auto prefixing of CSS classes & implements CSS-in-JS logic babel-plugin-styled-components - allows to use css prop for styled components, so you can write like <div css="padding: 5px"></div>

CSS-loader - process css style-loader - injects css to html sass-loader - process sass file-loader - process images & icons

html-webpack-plugin - dev dependency inserts <script> to /dist/index.html

jest - testing tools. Jest acts as a test runner, assertion library, and mocking library [ jest-svg-transformer - allows jest to parse svg jest-styled-components - allows to test styled components and ignore their auto generated className identity-obj-proxy - allows jest to parse css|styl|less|sass|scss|png|jpg|ttf|woff|woff2 react-test-renderer - for rendering snapshots enzyme - adds some great additional utility methods for rendering a component (or multiple components), finding elements, and interacting with elements. enzyme-to-json - provides a better component format for snapshot comparison than Enzyme’s internal component representation. snapshotSerializers allows you to minimise code duplication when working with snapshots. Without the serializer each time a component is created in a test it must have the enzyme-to-json method .toJson() used individually before it can be passed to Jest’s snapshot matcher, with the serializer you never use it individually. enzyme-adapter-react-16 - allows Enzyme to work with React babel-jest - allow jest usage with babel dotenv - allows to use .env to set environment variable. Read here how it should be written in Webpack https://medium.com/@trekinbami/using-environment-variables-in-react-6b0a99d83cf5. notistack - used for snackbars

Backend

1. Routes are protected with middleware that is fired when route is used doing checks that are required. For example, check that HTTP request contains all required fields.
2. Controller actions are protected by Gates that are registered in AuthServiceProvider.php

Xdebug

1. Find your local IP address with ipconfig getifaddr en0
2. Add it to Dockerfile_dev xdebug.remote_host=10.0.1.11. All the other configurations are already there
3. Remote port should be equal to debug port in IDE (Preferences->Languages & Frameworks->Debug) xdebug.remote_port
4. Add this host to DBGp Proxy too
5. Add the host to Servers with ip of the backend. For example, localhost:8001
6. Add configuration with remote debug
7. You can debug though REST API call only direct call in browser or Postman

Testing

Codeception is used for testing.

1. It has a general configuration file codeception.yml & separate file acceptance acceptance.suite.yml, functional functional.suite.yml & unit unit.suite.yml tests
2. Acceptance test uses Selenium with Google WebDriver that is run in Docker. It allows to test web application as if it was a real user, so it is useful for JS SPA. Command to start Selenium docker run -p 4444:4444 -d selenium/standalone-chrome
3. To run tests use the following command php vendor/bin/codecept run --steps
4. For testing purpose you should change Axios base url in .env to host machine IP as Selenium is in Docker - 10.0.1.11:8001. (!) Currently it is change directly in Axios file.
5. For third party API donatj\MockWebServer is used and that's why sockets extension is install in the container. As well as procps so that ps command can be used. In docker-compose for composer container we also add command: composer update --ignore-platform-reqs --no-scripts because it should ignore php sockets dependency which os in a separate container.

Commands:

1. Create test: php vendor/bin/codecept generate:cest api CreateUser

Jenkins

Initial setup

(!) Very important to use swap for small AWS instances sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile && sudo chmod 600 /swapfile && sudo mkswap /swapfile && sudo swapon /swapfile

https://linuxize.com/post/create-a-linux-swap-file/

1. Install Docker apt-get update && apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common && curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | apt-key add - && add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable" && apt-get update && apt-cache policy docker-ce && apt-get install -y docker-ce
2. Download docker image docker pull jenkinsci/blueocean
3. Put AWS access key to /home/ubuntu/.aws
4. Launch container in interactive mode, so you can see admin password and copy it. -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock is used so you can run Docker inside Docker docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v /var/jenkins_home:/var/jenkins_home -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock jenkinsci/blueocean
5. Then run container in detached mode docker run --name jenkins -d -p 8080:8080 -p 50000:50000 -v /var/jenkins_home:/var/jenkins_home -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /home/ubuntu/.aws:/root/.aws jenkinsci/blueocean. Here we put the following volumes:
   

• jenkins_home - contains all data about jenkins, so when container is restarted you don't have to set up all over again
  
• docker.sock - allows to use docker inside Jenkins container without additional installation
• .aws - aws access key that is used to authenticate before pushing to ECR

6. Install Pythonapk add --no-cache --update python3
7. Install AWS CLI as non root pip3 install awscli --upgrade --user
8. Get AWS Credentials $(/root/.local/bin/aws ecr get-login --no-include-email --region eu-central-1)
9. Give rights to ubuntu user on remote host for var/run/docker.sock
10. Install AWS CLI on remote host
11. Start mysql docker run -p 3306:3306 --name mysql -v /db_volume:/var/lib/mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=ueXXrisTgqP2I-1TmOYU2myQS1TCeVuVL0xZNOxNbXX= -e MYSQL_DATABASE=database -e MYSQL_USER=user -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=ueOQrisTgqP2I+9TmOYU2myQS1TCeVuVL0xZNOxNb44= -d mysql:5.7

##How to get AWS CLI key

1. Go to AWS IAM
2. Create a new user and attach rights: AmazonEC2FullAccess, SecretsManagerReadWrite, AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryFullAccess, AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryPowerUser
3. Download .csv file
4. Run command aws configure --profile produser and enter data from the .csv. Do the same in Jenkins.
5. If you use several AWS profiles follow the instruction

##How to get secret credentials Description is here In sshort:

1. Get the credentials hash with inspector
2. Insert it to http://52.59.247.1:8080/script like this println hudson.util.Secret.decrypt("{AQAAABAAAABANx7Sofv4K/ThU0BIB8oUS0bOtZ0xu9UT6sHdHk9lb18+RYF1kcdMhSJ6uKLBd5UFOWX4KDAkZV7HBD8WGabER+qn9rEDlHqeLwrJO69YsvI=}")

Jenkinsfile

1. Backend build is clear
2. Frontend contains --build-arg 'arg=.env.test' that is passed to the Dockerfile where it is used in ARG arg ENV env_file=$arg to replace .env files.
3. Test part is more interesting and described in the Jenkinsfile
4. Build backend & frontend. Backend is the same & to front we just push a different .env
5. Push image to ECR a. Get credentials for AWS b. Apply tag that contains data about the registry c. Delete image
6. Deploy quite clear