/concertTraveller

A web application for searching for concerts, carpooling and setting up meetings

Primary LanguageJavaScript

concertTraveller

ConcertTraveller is a web application that lets a user search for concerts, set up an offer of a ride/meeting for a specific concert and chat with the users who joined the offer.

ConcertTraveller on Heroku

Used technologies:

  1. React - frontend of the app
  2. Node.js - backend of the app, using Express.js framework
  3. MongoDB - a noSQL database
  4. Webpack - a module bundler, alongside with ESlint and Babel

How to use

  1. Make sure you have Node.js@8.9.1 and MongoDB@3.6.5 installed to ensure that the app works well
  2. Copy the repository

In the terminal:

  1. Run npm install in the main directory
  2. Run npm start

Go to http://localhost:4000 in your favourite browser to use the app.

Work done

  1. Configure Node.js environment with Express.js framework
  2. Configure React app (without create-react-app) with React Router
  3. Configure Webpack with ESLint and Babel
  4. Set up Hot Loading using Express Webpack middleware
  5. Write the frontend part of the app using ES6+ and React best practices
  6. Write the backend part of the app using ES6+ and Node best practices
  7. Set up the app for production (minifying the code, using the libraries for security and compression, specyfying environmental variables)
  8. Deploying the app the Heroku