A web application that allows its users to see, create, and join virtual spaces/groups related to PCAARRD's commodities and regional consortia. Once a user becomes part of a group, he or she can participate in the group's discussions by posting, commenting, and reacting. Every group must have at least one group administrator, the one who can perform group administrative privileges. These privileges are editing group information, changing membership type, and etc.
Categorized posting is implemented in this website. It is a feature that allows members to post a question, news, report, event, advertisement, media, or others in their groups. When viewing posts, they can choose to view posts in all categories or they can only view posts in one chosen category.
In addition, there is also community feed for all site members to see at the Community homepage when they are logged in. Community feed contains latest posts in the groups that users joined. This feature always gets users updated to the latest happenings in his or her groups.
This site contains even more features for regular users including view all posts by user, filter posts and groups by text, set posts invisible to non-member of the group, edit user information, and more. For site administrators, they have access to administrative features, namely manage group classifications and community dashboard.
- Node.js v6. Follow the installation steps for your operating system: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
- MongoDB. Download link: https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#community. Installation instructions for Ubuntu users: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/
- pm2 (Advanced Node.js process manager) if using production. For Ubuntu users, install using:
npm install -g pm2- Fork and clone the repository.
- Open a terminal and go to the PCAARRD-KM-Community directory.
- Type these commands (in order):
git fetch origin
git checkout development
npm install- Create .env file in the PCAARRD-KM-Community directory containing secret keys. Contact me to obtain the secret hash and salt.
- Open another terminal and run MongoDB using:
sudo service mongod start- In another terminal (in PCAARRD-KM-Community directory), run the web application using:
- On development
npm run dev- On production
npm run build (transpile and minify server codes and create client bundle)
and
npm start (run the built server and client codes)- Open a web browser and go to:
- On development
localhost:8080- On production
localhost:3000- Stop the production server using:
pm2 stop <process id of PCAARRD-KM-Community>To get the process id of this application, use:
pm2 show PCAARRD-KM-Community