Crusty Cards Frontend Service

Contains the React app and Frontend Service. This service is mainly an API gateway which handles the connection between the browser and backend services. Specifically its responsibilities include:

• Serving up the React app
• Handling incoming Socket.IO connections from the React app and piping real-time updates from RabbitMQ
• Handling all end-user authentication
  • Communicating with Google OAuth servers to authenticate users (Google OAuth is currently the only supported login method)
  • Generating JWT-based tokens that are stored as cookies in the browser (and verifying them with each subsequent request)

See the full inter-service architectural diagram here.