Comments Component (React, MongoDB, Koa)

An example of a reddit-style comments system, using React and LESS for the frontend, and MongoDB & Koa backend.

Installation and test with Docker and Docker Compose

• Run docker-compose up from project root to create and run MongoDB and Nodejs containers with prepopulated comments
• On OSX: open http://$(docker-machine ip dev):8080
• On Linux: open http://localhost:8080

Test locally

• Run a MongoDB server
• npm install from project root to install dependencies
• gulp [--production] to build server & optionally minify client in out
• node out/server/server.js [MongoDB path] to start the koa server. Default MongoDB path is localhost/test
• Populate comments & users with node scripts/populate.js