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https://github.com/msolorio/allocation-service

Backend API for allocating customer orders to batches of stock in a warehouse.
https://github.com/msolorio/allocation-service

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Backend API for allocating customer orders to batches of stock in a warehouse.

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# Allocation Service

[![TypeScript version][ts-badge]][typescript-5-4] [![Node.js version][nodejs-badge]][nodejs] [![Build Status - GitHub Actions][gha-badge]][gha-ci]

Backend API for allocating customer orders to batches of stock in a warehouse.

### Stack
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Express.js
- Prisma ORM
- Jest
- Docker
- Github Actions

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### Architecture

The application uses the [dependency inversion principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_inversion_principle), and creates abstractions around I/O and injects them. This allows us to pass a fake I/O to the service layer for testing the application "edge-to-edge" with fast, in-memory unit tests.

![in-memory-implementation](README_assets/in-memory-implementation.png)

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For real-world and E2E testing, the service layer is passed real I/O that talks to a database. Because we have already exhaustively tested the service layer with fast, in-memory tests, less slow E2E tests are needed. We can achieve a healthy testing pyramid with high coverage.

![e2e-implementation](README_assets/e2e-implementation.png)

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A few patterns are used to aid dependency inversion.

**Repository** - an abstraction around data access. Handles syncing between the domain model and the ORM.

**Unit of Work** - an abstraction around transactions and atomicity.

**Service Layer** - the entrypoint for injecting I/O and defines the application's use cases.

**Domain Model** - an object module of the business domain free of dependencies on data access.

**Data Mapper** - handles conversion between domain objects and db objects.

**Trade-offs** - Each pattern adds indirection and congintive load and wouldn't be necessary in a simple application. You could, for example, still achieve dependency inversion and abstracting I/O with only a simple repository and a service layer.

### Todo
- Add consistency boundary with optimistic concurrency
-- invariant: a batch's available quantity must be greater than or equal to zero

### Setup
Install docker and then run

```sh
git clone [email protected]:msolorio/allocation-service.git
cd allocation-service
make build
make up
make migrate
make test
```

### Make Scripts

- `make build` - Build docker container
- `make up` - Start app and TypeScript
- `make down` - Remove containers
- `make logs` - Show container logs
- `make test` - Run tests
- `make migrate` - Run db migrations
- `make run ` - Run a command in the container

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[nodejs]: https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.16/docs/api/
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