bulldog-board

About

A social media-inspired platform for students to discuss topics learn in classes. Although the main audience of the website is targeted to be CS major, students are free to create their own forums/threads for different topics/subjects.

Status

The website is under development. Will update as soon as it goes online.

Tech Stack

The project is built using MERN web development stack.

• MongoDB: A general purpose, document-based, distributed NoSQL database
• Express: Lightweight and fast web framework built on top of Node.js
• React: A javascript library developed by Facebook to build user interface
• Node.js: Javascript runtime

The website also incorporates modern frameworks/libraries/tools to make development more reliably and securely. Some examples include:

• jsonwebtoken: for secure user authorization
• mocha, supertest, chai: for automated integration testing
• travis_ci: for continuous integration, both for testing and deployment
• nyc and coveralls: test coverage

Scripts

Create configuration file:

cd ./app/server 
touch .env.local

# add following environment variable to the file:
MONGOOSE_URI=your_mongodb_uri
JWT_SECRET=your_secret
PORT=your_server_port

Start server:

npm run start

Run test:

# create .env.test.local to avoid database and port conflict with running server
touch .env.local

# add following environment variable to the file:
MONGOOSE_URI=your_mongodb_test_uri
JWT_SECRET=your_test_secret
PORT=your_test_server_port

npm run test

Check eslint style:

npm run lint