Contrive Application

Contrive is an event management software platform that connects Event Planners with their local Vendors. With enhanced search features, Planners can find the types of Vendors they most want to do business with and can easily connect with them utilizing the message feature.

Built with:

JS, HTML, CSS, React, Material-UI, Moment.js, Redux, Redux-Sagas, Node, Express, Passport, Socket.io, AWS, Postico and PostgreSQL (a full list of dependencies can be found in package.json).

Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:

Create database and table

Application Database:

Create a new postgreSQL database named contrive_db and copy all text in the database.sql file saved in the root folder of this repository. Paste all the copied text as a SQL query (Postico was used for original database creation) and execute the queries sequentially (Note: DROP TABLE queries at the top of the document will not do anything on initial setup since there are no tables yet created, and these DROP TABLE queries should be used carefully, as they permanently delete tables and any stored data therein.)

Location Database:

Setting up AWS S3 Bucket

Development Setup Instructions

Run npm install
Create a .env file at the root of the project and paste this line into the file:
```
SERVER_SESSION_SECRET=superDuperSecret
```
While you're in your new .env file, take the time to replace superDuperSecret with some long random string like 25POUbVtx6RKVNWszd9ERB9Bb6 to keep your application secure. Here's a site that can help you: https://passwordsgenerator.net/. If you don't do this step, create a secret with less than eight characters, or leave it as superDuperSecret, you will get a warning.
Start postgres if not running already by using brew services start postgresql
Run npm run server
Run npm run client
Navigate to localhost:3000

Lay of the Land

Directory Structure:

src/ contains the React application
public/ contains static assets for the client-side
build/ contains the transpiled code from src/ and public/ that will be viewed on the production site (Heroku)
server/ contains the Express App

This code is commented in each individual file with the aim to make it accessible.

Authors

Dusty Meyers Dusty's Site
Jason Lin Jason's Site
John Shands John's Site
McKynlee Westman McKynlee's Site
William Krug William's Site

License

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Prime Digital Academy who equipped us with the skills to make this application a reality.

PrimeAcademy / Contrive