A UTSC community focused Hub is quite hard to find, there are Facebook groups for finding events and people with similar course schedules or Amazon for buying/selling but they are not UTSC specific merch, textbooks or other course materials, what if we can have all these things in one place?! Presenting to you, UTSC Hub!
UTSC Hub is an application that targets all UTSC students and faculty members to distribute further convenience within the community and explore the embedded demands and supplies by offering a UTSC specific eCommerce platform. Besides that, our website also aims to accomplish more sophisticated community engagement with our distinctive SMS and event planning features.
- NodeJS (16.17.0 LTS)
Optional
- Postman (for manual testing of backend API)
Clone the project with Git.
If developing for the server, run npm install in the server directory.
If developing for the client, run yarn in the client directory.
Switch to the client directory. Run yarn start to start the web client server. The local server can be connected to by visiting localhost:3000 in your browser.
Switch to the server directory. Run npm run server to start the backend API server. Requests to the backend server are sent to http://localhost:8000. Ex: http://localhost:8000/api/items
How it should look like after running npm run server:
To get setup, see the Development section above.
Once you get a ticket to work on, checkout the develop branch then make a new branch with the start of the name being the ticket ID. Ex: Ticket ID is PROJ-123, branch name can be PROJ-123-add-feature.
Once you are done with your changes, push your changes to a new remote branch with the same name as your local branch, then open a PR. The PR title should give a high-level description of what the PR does, and the description should have details on the approach and implementation. Add 2 people to review the PR. After changes are made and approved, the PR can be merged by one of the reviewers.