This is a web app built for Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention, a student organization at Penn, as a resource tree for all sexual violence resources at Penn. This is a Typescript based MERN web application.
- Admin portal with ability to change resources, questions, and answers
- Rich text editor for answer and question changes
- Tree-based data structure in backend
- Private and secure user experience that does not track user data
- Back and Next buttons, as well as ability to see other resources if different answers were selected
- Dictionary and side help bar for unkown terms, filtered based on the words in the question/answer/resource
These are necessary to build and run the project at full functionality
- Install Yarn Package Manager
- Install NodeJS
To take full advantage of the linting/formatting, recommend adding the Prettier and ESLint VSCode extensions and configuring them as shown here for code highlighting and formatting on save. Skip to the section labeled "Add the following to your VS Code settings.json". To access your settings.json, follow what is linked here. See here for the differences between the two tools and how they work together.
Finally, we also recommend downloading the Live Share extension by Microsoft for improved Collaboration. This allows for easy peer programming on one shared repository instance.
The boilerplate uses MongoDB as the database to store information for authentication. To have this available for use, do the following
- Create a MongoDB Atlas Account
- Create a database deployment (This should be done by your PM/TL)
- Get the database connection URI (Get from your PM/TL and add to .env)
Recommend downloading MongoDB Compass for easy viewing and management of data.
The boilerplate uses SendGrid to send emails to users in order to verify their account, and also to reset their passwords. To have email functionality available for use, the PM/TL should do the following
- Create a SendGrid Account
- Register a Sender Identity (Single Sender recommended for most)
- Create an [API Key](https://docs.sendgrid.com/ui/account-and-settings/api-keys#creating-an-api-key
Create a file named .env in the root of the server folder and add the following variables with the appropriate values. PM/TLs should provide this to their developers.
ATLAS_URI=mongodb-connection-uri-from-above
COOKIE_SECRET=any-string
SENDGRID_API_KEY=sendgrid-api-key-from-above
SENDGRID_EMAIL_ADDRESS=sendgrid-sender-identity-email-from-above
NOTE: Currently, this project is best supported by running CLI commands from a bash/zsh environment. If using Windows, this can be achieved by following what's done here.
From the root folder, run the following to configure the project and its dependencies
$ yarn setup
If there is any need to reset the dependencies, simply run the following series of commands
$ yarn clean
$ yarn setup
To run the project, use the following commands from the root folder
# run both server and client
$ yarn dev
# run server only
$ yarn server
# run client only
$ yarn client
To run all the tests in the project, run the following from the root folder
$ yarn test
To check for linting issues from ESLint and fix what's possible, from the root folder run the following
$ yarn lint
To format the code appropriately with Prettier (don't need this if format on save was setup in VSCode), from the root folder run the following
$ yarn format
Fill in with problem scenario + solution as they arise
If you see an error message similar to this one:
The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=12.0.0". Got "11.15.0"
This means you are using the wrong node version. This boilerplate relies on using node version 14.8. If you are using any other version of node, please use nvm to set node version to 14.8.3 as referenced here.