Steps to run the project

1. Have skaffold installed and run skaffold dev in the root directory of the project
2. for running in ubuntu install minikube and run minikube start and then skaffold dev
3. Use skaffold dev --port-forward to forward the ports to the host machine

OR 4. run minukube service -all to get the url of the service and open it in the browser 5. run minikube dashboard to see the dashboard of the cluster 6. run minikube stop to stop the cluster 7. run minikube delete to delete the cluster 8. run minikube addons list to see the addons installed

Creating secret in kube cluster

1. Create a secret in the cluster using the command kubectl create secret generic jwt-secret --from-literal=JWT_KEY=your_secret_key

Solution to the Auth Status on the client side

1. using getServerSideProps to get the currentUser on the initial page load don't work if we hit /api/users/currentuser because getServerSideProps runs on the server and the request to /api/users/currentuser is made on the client pod which throws error of not found.
2. To solve this we need to make a forward that request to the ingress-nginx controller which will then forward the request with the cookie from the browser to the correct service (auth service) and then return the response to the client.
3. So we need to make a proxy request to the ingress-nginx controller which will then forward the request to the correct service.
4. The request need to made on "http://SERVICENAME.NAMESPACE.svc.cluster.local/api/users/currentuser" which in our case is, "http://ingress-nginx-controller.ingress-nginx.svc.cluster.local/api/users/currentuser". and pass the headers as well. To get the namespace run kubectl get namespace and to get the service name run kubectl get services -n NAMESPACE

Common shared library published to npm

1. we created a common shared library to be used between different services.
2. it is published on npm under organization and name common - @cgticketingproject/common
3. to avoid any typescript version issues with other projects, we have typescript code in the common code but its compiled to js before publishing.
4. to use the common library in other projects, we need to install it using npm install @cgticketingproject/common and then import it in the code.
5. After updating the common library, we need to publish it again using npm publish --access public to make the changes available to other projects. For this project we can use npm run pub to add and commit to git, increment patch version, build the changes and publish it to npm.
6. To update the version in the other projects, we need to run npm update @cgticketingproject/common npm install @cgticketingproject/common@latest to get the latest version of the common library.