Challenge
The greatest technical challenge was maintaining secure development practices and ensuring the front-end mobile application and back-end server application (being developed independently by two different teams, in two different countries, using two different technology stacks) were communicating with one another in a secure and authenticated way.
Solution
An iterative approach was taken through design sessions with the client and the third-party company in order to plan how authentication would work from a user perspective and throughout the tech stack.
The process involved establishing a series of user stories that would determine the access rights, functions and limitations of each account type to be created for the associated web application.
Authentication features are incorporated to prevent users from accessing other users’ videos unless they are made publicly available.
NodeJS allows our developers to utilise a number ofhelpful APIs to assist in the development of an asynchronous back-end for the application server.
The MySQL database is used to store credentials pertaining to clients using the site (such as login details, user info, bios, pricing and categories of work).
Our back-end solution leverages the capabilities of Azure for the application’s video storage, with all additional functionalities being custom-built.
In doing so, the back-end provides all the functionality that the front-end application needs to successfully operate.
The result is a high performance, scalable and fault tolerant server layer with automated deployment to the Azure cloud.
Technology Stack
- Azure
- Express
- MySQL
- NodeJS
- React
- TypeScript