Creative Labs is a platform for developers, designers and artists to network and collaborate within the new creator economy. We are living in a very exciting time when it comes to technology, as creative people we often have a lot of ideas for projects we would like to execute, however, can lack certain skillsets in order to bring our ideas into fruition. Our goal was to create an app where a creative, whether that be designer, developer, or artist could post an idea of a project that they would like to build.
They could then state what skill-set they required and how many individuals needed. In addition to this functionality, we wanted to integrate features of a social network. Such as a private 1-1 chat for the creatives. As well as chat rooms for each project idea. In order to fuel our ambition, we had to overcome a variety of obstacles which led us to become familiar with existing and new technologies.
- Bav Kudhail
- Nadine Mohsen
- Emily Mckibben
Do you have a brilliant idea? Are you a developer in need of some 3D models? A designer that can't code? A 3D artist that needs some help with design? Creator Labs is a space for all creatives to come together to share their skills in order to build new and exciting projects.
AS A creative with an excellent idea,
I WANT to find others creators with skills to complement my own
SO THAT I can build my project successfully
AS A creative with looking to get their creative juices flowing,
I WANT to find projects that I can join and network with other creators
SO THAT I can build awesome things- Users can create their own projects
- Users can join others projects to form a team
- Users have group chat messaging
- Users have private chat messaging
- Users have a personal profile page
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- jQuery
- Dotenv
- Nodemon
- Express
- Node.js
- Handlebars.js
- Express-session
- Moment
- Mysql2
- Sequelize
- AWS S3
- Socket.io
Each screen was designed on figma making the development process easier.
Clone the repository to your local machine.
git clone https://github.com/bavkudhail/creative-labs
cd creative-labs
Install the required dependencies
npm i
source schema.sql
node server.js
npm run seed
You must then place a .env file in the root directory in order to connect to your MySql database as well as information to your AWS bucket. An example has been placed within the root directory of this repository.
To use the application on heroku click the link under Deployed Application.
Alternatively, to use this on your local machine. Enter node server.js in the terminal. A link to localhost:3001 will appear in the terminal. Click this link and the project will open in your browser.
The deployed application is available here:
If you have any questions about this project please feel free to get in touch with myself via email or the project team below.