🌸 Kalakriti – Full Stack MERN Application with Docker & CI/CD

Kalakriti is a full-stack MERN application built using modern DevOps practices.

This project demonstrates:

• Containerization
• CI Automation
• Full-stack Integration

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🚀 Tech Stack

Frontend

• React
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS

Backend

• Node.js
• Express
• MongoDB
• JWT Authentication

DevOps

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• GitHub Actions (CI)

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📁 Project Structure

kalakriti-main/
│
├── server/
│   ├── controllers
│   ├── models
│   ├── routes
│   ├── Dockerfile
│
├── src/                # Frontend
├── docker-compose.yml
├── Dockerfile         # Frontend
├── .github/workflows/ci.yml
├── package.json
└── README.md

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🐳 Run Using Docker

Build & Start

docker compose up --build

Frontend:

http://localhost:5173

Backend:

http://localhost:5000

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Stop Containers

docker compose down

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🔐 Environment Variables

Create .env file:

MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection
JWT_SECRET=your_secret
PORT=5000

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⚙️ GitHub Actions CI Pipeline

Workflow:

.github/workflows/ci.yml

CI Flow

On every push to main:

✅ Frontend build
✅ Backend Docker build
✅ Full stack Docker build

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📦 CI Jobs

Frontend

• npm ci
• npm run build

Backend

• Docker build

Docker

• Full stack build

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🧪 Run Without Docker

Frontend

npm install
npm run dev

Backend

cd server
npm install
node index.js

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✨ Features

• JWT Authentication
• MongoDB Integration
• REST APIs
• Dockerized Services
• CI Automation

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👨‍💻 Author

Harsh Maniya

DevOps | MERN | AWS | Docker | Kubernetes

GitHub: https://github.com/Harsh-1165

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