Slotty

Online web app designed to help you get a slot in that hard to register for course!

If you want to just use the app, skip down to the Deploying section.

If you want to help develop or play around with the code, visit the Developing section.

For random questions you may have, take a look at the FAQ section.

FAQ

Q: What is the purpose of all these files?

TODO

Q: How do you persist (store) data?

Short answer: PostgreSQL Database

Long answer: TODO

Q: What framework is used on the frontend?

Short answer: React (via Create React App)

Long answer: TODO

Q: What framework is used on the backend?

Short answer: None (libraries used incl. express and node-postgres)

Long answer: TODO

Configuration

TODO

Developing

1. Prerequisites

• Node 12+ (may function with older versions at your own risk)
• Yarn
• An editor of your choice
  • Recommended: VS Code
  • Recommended: WebStorm
  • Recommended: Sublime Text
  • Alternative: Notepad++
  • Alternative: Vim
  • Alternative: Eclipse
• Git client of your choice
  • Recommended: Command line client
  • Alternative: Sourcetree
  • Alternative: GitHub Desktop

2. Installing

1. Ensure the required prerequisites are installed. In particular, you should be able to run node -v on the command line and see a version at 12 or over outputted. As well, you should be able to run yarn -v and see a version outputted.
2. Clone the repository using your client of choice. If you're using the command line client, you should be able to execute git clone git@github.com:EvilKanoa/Slotty.git or git clone https://github.com/EvilKanoa/Slotty.git.
3. Navigate a command line into the newly cloned Slotty folder and install the required libraries by running yarn.
4. Open the config.json file and ensure that the configuration values look correct.
5. Done!

3. Running

1. Open a command line within the Slotty folder and run yarn start to run the development server.
2. The server will now be available on your local machine at the port specified within config.json. That is, if port = 8080 (the default value), then you can navigate to http://localhost:8080 or http://127.0.0.1:8080 in a browser to access the site.
3. For testing the backend, Postman is recommended.
4. Once changes have been made, run yarn lint before committing or pushing your changes.

Deploying

To deploy Slotty, simply follow steps 1 and 2 of developing and then start the application using yarn prod.