Install with Reaction Platform
The Reaction Platform is the easiest way to run the entire suite of Reaction services at once, as of Reaction version 2.0. The Platform installs and runs the entire suite of Reaction services in these directories:
| Directory | Services |
|---|---|
reaction | GraphQL API, Meteor API, Classic UI, Mongo |
reaction-hydra | Authentication server, PostgreSQL |
reaction-next-starterkit | Next.js storefront application |
Installation
- Requirements:
- Install Docker and Docker Compose (Mac | Windows | Linux)
- Install Node.js
- A GitHub account with a configured SSH key
Windows: Reaction Platform has not been fully tested on Windows at this time.
Linux: Docker Compose is included when installing Docker on Mac and Windows, but will need to be installed separately on Linux.
Before you get started, make sure you are not running any applications on the default ports:
3000,4000,4444,4445,5555,5432, and27017.Clone Reaction Platform
git clone git@github.com:reactioncommerce/reaction-platform.git
- Now you're ready to install. Run this command to bootstrap and start all of the services:
cd reaction-platform
make
This process may take some time. The Platform is checking that dependencies are present, cloning the sub-projects from GitHub, downloading and building Docker images, and starting services.
By the end of the initial make process, you should see these log messages:
Successfully tagged reaction-next-starterkit_web:latest
Running post-build hook script for reaction-next-starterkit.
reaction-next-starterkit post-build script invoked.
Recreating reaction-next-starterkit_web_1 ... done
Running post-project-start hook script for reaction-next-starterkit.
reaction-next-starterkit post-project-start script invoked.
Running post-system-start hook script for reaction-hydra.
reaction-hydra post-system-start script invoked.
No post-system-start hook script for reaction. Skipping.
Running post-system-start hook script for reaction-next-starterkit.
reaction-next-starterkit post-system-start script invoked.
You can confirm that all of these containers have installed and are starting up by running:
docker ps
You should see a log of all running containers with names, ports and statuses:
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
7616b75a7277 reaction-next-starterkit_web "sh -c 'yarn install…" 15 minutes ago Up 15 minutes 0.0.0.0:4000->4000/tcp reaction-next-starterkit_web_1
56053f0275fb reaction_reaction "bash -c 'npm instal…" 18 minutes ago Up 18 minutes 0.0.0.0:3000->3000/tcp reaction_reaction_1
31f4180746a4 mongo:3.6.3 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 weeks ago Up 18 minutes 0.0.0.0:27017->27017/tcp reaction_mongo_1
1f420dd7c664 oryd/hydra:v1.0.0-beta.9-alpine "hydra serve all --d…" 2 weeks ago Up 19 minutes 0.0.0.0:4444-4445->4444-4445/tcp, 0.0.0.0:5555->5555/tcp reaction-hydra_hydra_1
fc43e0a4d55b postgres:10.3 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 weeks ago Up 19 minutes 0.0.0.0:32769->5432/tcp reaction-hydra_postgres_1
- As the various repositories are downloading and services are starting, check the logs by running
docker-compose logs -fin the specific repository. For example, to display thereactionlogs, run:
cd reaction
docker-compose logs -f
To display the reaction-next-starterkit logs, run:
cd reaction-next-starterkit
docker-compose logs -f
- Once all of the services are running, the following will be accessible at these URLs:
| Directory: Service | URL |
|---|---|
reaction: GraphQL API | POST localhost:3000/graphql-alpha |
reaction: GraphQL API playground | GET localhost:3000/graphql-alpha |
reaction: Classic UI | localhost:3000 |
reaction: MongoDB | localhost:27017 |
reaction-hydra: oryd/hydra | localhost:4444 |
reaction-next-starterkit | localhost:4000 |
- Congrats 🎉 Now you're running the entire suite of Reaction Platform services and ready to start developing.
Developing with Reaction Platform
Once you've bootstrapped the entire Reaction development in Docker, use make start to start all containers.
Reaction Platform commands
Run these commands from the reaction-platform directory:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
make | Boostraps the entire Reaction development environment in Docker. |
make stop | Stops all containers. |
make start | Starts all containers. |
make rm | Removes all containers. Volumes are not removed. |
make clean | Removes all containers, networks, and volumes. Any volume data will be lost. |
make init-<project-name> | Example: make init-reaction-next-starterkit. Does clone/setup for a single project. |
Learn more about Reaction Platform.
Git
Each sub-project has its own respective Git repository. If you want to run a different branch of reaction against reaction-next-starterkit, for example, change directories into reaction and git checkout a different branch there.
Environment variables
Most Reaction services need certain environment variables set properly before they will start. Each project has a .env.example file that is copied to a Git-ignored .env file by the project's pre-build script. In most cases, these should have the correct values for running locally by default, but it's a good idea to review them.
Later, when you pull new commits for a project or check out a different branch, the project may have changed requirements for environment variables. But your .env file will not update automatically because it is Git-ignored. Thus, it's a good idea after every pull or checkout to either rebuild the project or cd into the project folder and run the bin/setup script. (For the reaction project, the script is at .reaction/scripts/setup instead of bin/setup due to how Meteor works.) This script will copy missing environment variables from .env.example to .env. Alternatively, you can compare and update .env manually.
Docker commands
Learn more about developing in Docker and troubleshooting Docker development.