/2021-fall-cs160-pied-piper

Primary LanguageJavaScript

A web-based stock chart and live chat program for Prof. Karra's CS160 course at SJSU.

Hosted here: https://kevin-benelli.github.io/2021-fall-cs160-pied-piper/ All updates to master will get automatically deployed using Github Actions.

Dev steps:

  1. Install nodejs and npm if you don't already have them

  2. In stocked-express-backend directory:

    • npm install
    • npm install -g nodemon
    • Potentially may need to do npm install cors on its own here
    • nodemon socket-server.js

  3. In stocked-client directory:

    • npm install
    • npm start

React page will be on localhost:3000/2021-fall-cs160-pied-piper

Nodemon will be using localhost:5001

  1. A local MySQL server must also be running.
    • Follow the steps on the MySQL documentation to install and start MySQL: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-getting-started/en/
    • Open a terminal window and change directory to /2021-fall-cs160-pied-piper/stocked-express-backend/
    • Run the following command with your MySQL user credentials. Do not include the asterisks *. Put no spaces after the u/p as shown. 
      mysql -u*yourusername* -p*yourpassword*  < build_db.sql
    • The database should be successfully built, along with a new user with privileges for the database.