Story Busters

Story Busters is an interactive platform where users can share their stories for others to enjoy. The other users also have the option to add-on to those stories, if the author accepts their draft. Users are able to read stories on their main page, create new stories, vote for which drafts they like and like the stories itself.

Live App

The app is deployed on Render at:

Note: Some bug fixes of the site are in progress.

Project Setup

Getting Started

Create the .env by using .env.example as a reference: cp .env.example .env
Update the .env file with your correct local information

username: labber
password: labber
database: midterm

Install dependencies: npm i
Fix to binaries for sass: npm rebuild node-sass
Reset database: npm run db:reset

Check the db folder to see what gets created and seeded in the SDB

Run the server: npm run local

Note: nodemon is used, so you should not have to restart your server

Visit http://localhost:8080/

Warnings & Tips

Do not edit the layout.css file directly, it is auto-generated by layout.scss
Split routes into their own resource-based file names, as demonstrated with users.js and widgets.js
Split database schema (table definitions) and seeds (inserts) into separate files, one per table. See db folder for pre-populated examples.
Use the npm run db:reset command each time there is a change to the database schema or seeds.
- It runs through each of the files, in order, and executes them against the database.
- Note: you will lose all newly created (test) data each time this is run, since the schema files will tend to DROP the tables and recreate them.

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