Crowdbuild

PC Part Picker clone, but with news, recommendations (peer-reviewed), reviews (like TechSpot), forum posts (like r/PCMasterRace), and performance tests (like PCMark, Cinebench, PugetBench, 3DMark, GFXBench, SPECviewperf, PassMark, Phoronix, or GeekBench, but all done using Web Assembly and WebGL/WebGPU in the browser).

Essentially PC Part Picker if combined with an alternate reality version of UserBenchmark that was NOT skewed beyond all sense and reason.

Project Goal

Core Features

PC part database.
PC part list.
PC part pros and cons, database of known issues and idiosyncratic behavior.
PC part performance review database, MetaCritic style with both user-generated and professional reviews.
Links to purchase on retailer/e-tailer sites (e.g.: Micro Center, Newegg, etc.).
Crowd-sourced peer-reviewed recommendation knowledge database. Essentially combining the Linus Tech Tips PSU Tier List, the LTT Motherboard Tier Lists, every reliable source for PC part specs and reviews (manufacturer spec sheets, and reviews like Tech Spot, TechPowerUp, etc.), and more!
User accounts.
User forum.
Posting of PC build pictures.

Core Princibles

Objective encyclopedic perspective unless otherwise stated as opinion/subjective.
Peer reviews for all data presented as truth.
No Fanboy-isms.

Get Started

This project uses both NPM workspaces and PNPM workspaces.

pnpm install

npm install
npm install --workspaces

Just use the Docker container with docker compose up and MongoDB env settings should already be set in the docker-compose.dev.yml.

Setup a mongoDB testing server, then put the URL of the MongoDB server in a .env file in the project root directory.

# in project directory
echo '# local env variables:
MONGODB="YOUR_LOCAL_MONGODB_SERVER_URL" # your local testing MongoDB URL, probably like "mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017"' >> .env

And then add the SECRET for JWT token signing.

echo 'SECRET="secret" # just "secret" for current testing to keep JWTs consistant' >> .env

You should be able to start by setting up the database and server with:

npm run init-db # NOTE: this with initialise and modify the testing database
npm run dev

The Website

The site is a SPA app that uses React Router. It has user accounts and the functionality to save lists publicly editable or just modifiable by the user that created it. It has a search feature to find PC parts and PC part lists.

nyctfall / crowd-build