dhruvsangamwar/steam_game_finder

Tired of spending time deciding what game to play with your friends? use this app

steam-game-finder

This app uses the valve api to serve a webapp at that allows the user to find a game in common that they could play.

Tech Stack

Client: TypeScript, ReactJS, Tailwind

Server: Python, Flask, Nginx, SQLAlchemy

Other: Docker

Configuring the repo for the first time and running the application

Deploy this application locally

The instructions below will allow you to run this project on your local computer using

make build

1. Run the following command in the terminal to download a copy of the repo to your local machine

  git clone "repo link"

• Navigate into the new sub-folder created called steam_game_finder.

2. After the project repo is downloaded navigate into the project directory

  cd steam_game_finder

3. Manually open Docker desktop or run the command below to open Docker

 open -a Docker

4. Once the Docker desktop is runnning, type the command below to create and start the containerized application

  make build

At this point the container with the app should be running in your local computer

Services are running on Port 3000 (front-end React), Port 5001 (back-end REST). Please make sure you have no other app running on these ports

5. Run the following command to create and reset the Messages table in the database.

• This command can be used any time you want to delete and reset all the data in the database

make clean

Open a browser to the local host http://localhost:3000/ and start using the app!