Mindmappers

What is Mindmappers

• A collaborative mind-mapping tool designed to facilitate real-time brainstorming and idea organization for individuals and teams.
• Monolith version: https://www.mindmappers.felixlyy.me/
• Microservice version: https://mindmappers.neverland3124.me/ (too expensive to maintain)

Why Mindmappers-microservice?

• Try the possibility of microservice and deploy with Kubernetes
• Also fix some of the issues for the monolith version
• Open source the project for everyone to learn different technologies

Original Monolith Version

• Check branch Mindmappers-monolith
• Project Proposal.md contains the original monolith project detail

Architecture

• Backend - use microservice with api-gateway
  • Each request go to api-gateway and based on the url route to different services
    • Api-Gateway
      • handing cors, routing, websocket upgrade, redis cache of token
    • Auth Microservices
      • authentication of google oauth2 and send email and webhook feature
    • Object Microservices
      • create room, create object, core website features
    • Image Microservices
      • able to send generate image task and get image
    • Image Worker Microservices
      • worker to get task and generate image
• Frontend

Technologies

• Node.js + Express.js for backend runtime and server
• PostgreSQL + Sequelize for data storage
• Google OAuth 2.0 for user authentication
• Redis + ioredis library for token caching
• Ant Design as the UI library
• Socket.IO for WebSocket communication
• OpenAI for AI image generation
• AWS S3 for image storage and retrieval
• MailerSend for sending emails and triggering webhooks
• Docker + GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) for CI/CD and monolithic deployment
• Kubernetes + Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for microservices deployment
• AngularJS for the frontend framework
• GoJS for diagrams and maps

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.