Technologies

• Docker Compose
  • Orchestrate Ruby on Rails API container and Redis container.
• Ruby on Rails
  • Web application framework. Used to create this API only application.
• Redis
  • In memory data store used as a cache.
• NGINX
  • Server used for routing and ssl (https).
• Nokogiri
  • (Ruby gem) HTML parser used to grab data from CDC.
• Rack CORS
  • (Ruby gem) Packaging allowing for CORS configuration.
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2)
  • Linux server space to host API.
• React
  • JavaScript library for building UI
• Material UI
  • A popular React UI framework
• Netlify
  • Continuous Ingegration and hosting for UI.

Repos

• API Repo: github.com/Jnavarr56/covid-19-death-toll-comparison-api
• UI Repo: github.com/Jnavarr56/covid-19-death-toll-comparison-ui