Color Catcher

Description

Color Catcher is a project inspired by the website Coolors. It allows a user to randomly generate colors, create projects, and save a "palette" of colors to a specific project. It is a partner project at Turing that required both a frontend and a backend to be built You can view the Back-End Repository here.

Heroku deployment: Color Catcher Backend

Installation

1. Clone down this repo and cd in to it

git clone https://github.com/lboyer4/color-catcher-frontend.git

2. Run npm install

npm install

4. Clone down the backend repo and cd in to

git clone https://github.com/lboyer4/color-catcher-backend.git

5. Run the server

npm start

6. Run the frontend

npm start

Frontend UI

Wireframes

Goals

The goals of this project's frontend was to create an App that generates random colors, allows you to "freeze" colors, and save projects and palettes to the backend. It uses ReactJS, Redux, Enzyme, and Jest.

The goals of this project's backend was to get comfortable using Express and Node.js, and to implement Travis CI.

Contributors

Lauren Boyer

Sally Haefling