seanttaylor / freshman-year

Micro-financing platform for crowdfunded undergraduate tuition expenses

api-freshman-yr

Freshman Year is a prototype crowdsource-enabled micro-financing platform targeting undergraduate tuition and related expenses.

Sponsors can sign up, link their debit or credit card accounts and then direct spare change from everyday transaction to a selected scholar.

Scholars can have an unlimited number of sponsors, which can mean unlimited potential to build a fund to defray the cost of college tuition and other education expenses.

Third Party Integrations

• Stripe
• Plaid
• Amazon Web Services (ECR, ECS, EC2, RDS)
• Mailgun
• Redis

Items above marked in italics are planned integrations.

Local Development

1. Do docker-compose up The application will likely fail on the first attempt to initialize becasue it takes several seconds for the MySQL database container to spin up. As a result the data_service container that relies on the database will not load the API endpoints .
2. When the logs indicate that the database is ready for incoming connections, do docker-restart on the data_service container. This flow is only required on the first startup. Subsequently you can just do docker-compose up once to set up the project.

Notes

• Use the localTunnel package to expose the localhost interface publicly using npm run localtunnel