Pictionary

Load balanced angular 4 web application with redis communication layer.

Prerequisites

• NodeJS v4
• Redis

Installation

Web server

1. Install NodeJS and Redis.
2. Clone the project with git clone https://github.com/lorjala/pictionary.git.
3. Move to app directory cd PictionaryApp.
4. Install node modules with npm install.
5. Configure environment variables.
6. Run the application with node index.js.

Environment variables

• PORT: server port
• REDIS_HOST: redis host
• REDIS_PORT: redis port

Client

1. Move to client directory cd client.
2. Install node modules with npm install.
3. Install angular-cli globally with npm install -g @angular/cli for easy build.
4. Build the angular application with ng build.

Load balancer

1. Move to load balancer directory cd ../../LoadBalancer.
2. Configure web servers addresses and ports in the index.js.
3. Configure environment variables.
4. Launch the load balancer with node index.js.

Environment variables

• PORT: load balancer PORT