Opbeans

The Opbeans inventory management system is a demo app created and maintained by Elastic.

It's hosted on opbeans.com.

Technology Stack

This application uses the following technologies:

• Node.js
• Express
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• React
• React Router
• Redux
• Elastic APM

Deployment

This app can be deployed directly to Heroku by pressing the button above. You will need to enter the required environment variables to complete the deployment. See below for configuration options.

Configuration

Setup the following environment variables:

• NODE_ENV - The current Node environment (set to production to enable Elastic APM)
• OPBEANS_SERVER_PROTOCOL - Set protocol used to connect to the backend server (defaults to http:)
• OPBEANS_SERVER_AUTH - Set authentication used to connet to the backend in the format of username:password (defaults to an empty string)
• OPBEANS_SERVER_HOSTNAME - Set hostname used to connect to the backend (defaults to localhost)
• OPBEANS_SERVER_PORT - Set port used to connect to the backend (defaults to value of PORT or 3001)
• PGHOST - PostgreSQL server host
• PGPORT - PostgreSQL server port
• PGUSER - PostgreSQL database username
• PGPASSWORD - PostgreSQL database password
• PGDATABASE - PostgreSQL database name (defaults to opbeans)
• ELASTIC_APM_SERVICE_NAME - Elastic APM service name for the server app
• ELASTIC_APM_SERVER_URL - APM Server URL (defaults to http://localhost:8080)
• ELASTIC_APM_JS_BASE_SERVER_URL - Elastic APM Server URL for the client app
• ELASTIC_APM_JS_BASE_SERVICE_NAME - Elastic APM App Name for the client app

For a complete list of PostgreSQL environment variables see the official documentation.

In development, you can create a .env file in the root of the project containing all your secret environment variables. See dotenv for details. Additionally if you create a .env file in the /client folder, variables prefixed with ELASTIC_APM_JS_BASE_ will be available in the React app.

Bootstrap

Populate the database with tables and basic data:

npm run db-setup

Generate random orders:

node db/generate_orders.js <num>

Where <num> is the amount of orders to create.

Start

npm start

Demo notes

The Node.js server have a built-in bug that you can trigger by navigating to the path /is-it-coffee-time.

License

MIT

Made with ♥️ and ☕️ by Elastic.