System Architecture
Following our previous post concerning the chosen tech stack of HobbyLink, a system design has been drawn up.
To recap, the application will be adopting the MEAN stack in conjunction with Socket.io (to implement the chat functionality). Figure 1 shows the architecture design of the application.
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