fac-15 / FAC-YAK

A web app to propose lightning talks at FAC

Fac Yak

A thing where you can add and view lightning talks at Founders and Coders. Sign up and log in to add a talk, and view all talks on the main splash page. Team members are:

• Susan
• Alex
• Oliver
• Martin

To get it running locally:

1. clone repo
2. npm install
3. run database build scripts: node database/bd_build.js - main database, hosted on heroku. NOTE this will overwrite current database node database/bd_build_test.js - testing database
4. npm run dev
5. Create a config.env file and ask us for the contents!
6. view project on port 8000
7. npm run coveragefor code coverage

Dev Dependencies:

• nodemon
• tape
• tap-spec
• codecov
• nyc / istanbul
• supertest

Dependencies:

• bcryptjs
• cookie
• jsonwebtoken
• and more...

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Checklist:

• User stories as issues on Github

• Travis CI setup

• Testing:

  • Tape and Tap Spec setup
  • Supertest for routing
  • codecov
  • badges (show in README.md), but not passing
  • database testing

• Front end:

  • HTML: index, signuplogin, dashboard
  • CSS: reset, styles
  • JS: request, main.
  • Cookies (for login/ authentication). We have a login with jwt!

• Database:

  • Test database (local to each machine)
  • Live database (hosted on heroku)
  • Conditionals in files to accommodate for local/ live

More in HackMD

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Whiteboarding and User Stories

Original Whiteboard

User adds a post when logged in

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Difficulties

• Redirecting after submitting new user
  • problem with postData function in handler.js
• Getting bcrypt to actually match passwords
• Adding and getting environment variables to work in Travis (It worked when the config file was in Github)

What we are proud of

• Promise on db_build.js
• The YAK!!!
• Not calling it FAK Chat