Findabuddy

Find a buddy so you don't have to do your favorite thing alone.

Team

Product Owner: David Berry
Scrum Master: Mark Suyat
Development Team Members: Alex Jungroth, John Roxborough

Legacy Team

Product Owner: Placid Rodrigues
Scrum Master: Kevin McFarlane
Development Team Members: Kenneth Marshall, Scott Rudiger

Original App
Legacy Features
Usage
Requirements
Development
1. Installing Dependencies
2. Tasks
Team
Contributing

Original App

We got the original app that had been built by a different team of engineers. The app included the following features:

Post a buddy request
Search for a buddy request
Get notifications for messages

Legacy Features

We added several cool features to the app in four days. Such as:

Live Google Maps - for showing the open requests marked by their locations
Browse Request List- (live)
Realtime Messages/Chat - Using socket.io
Profile view - Edit profile, Add interests, Show buddy list, View buddy profile
Improved Notifications
Email Notification when signing up and when other users add you as a buddy
Add buddies - including automatic search text completion feature (using Typeahead)
Find-a-buddy-bot

Usage

clone repo, npm install in root directory. Setup MongoDB uri and place in .env that you manually create.

Setup gmail for sending the notification mails and add the email address and password to the deployment server config and also in .env for local testing.

gmailUser=gmail-address
gmailPass=gmail-password

Add Google Maps API Key in index.ejs

Then run

npm install
bower install
npm run babel-watch

To start local server, run in another terminal

npm run start-dev

direct your browser to localhost:8080

Follow normal signup/login workflow from here, and you're ready to find a buddy

Requirements

Node 6.10.2
NPM 5.0.4
Bower 1.8.0
everything else installed by NPM & Bower

Development

Installing Dependencies

From within the root directory:

sudo npm install -g bower
npm install

at this point all dependencies will be downloaded. Bower dependencies will be downloaded and jsx will be transpiled as a post-install after running the command npm install

Continuous Deployment

Acquire access to findabuddy Heroku project from development team. from the root directory of findabuddy: "heroku git:remote -a findabuddy" will give you a remote repository called heroku to deploy, first commit to your local repo, then type "git push heroku master"

Roadmap

View the project roadmap here

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

placidrod/Findabuddy