merAuc

Code Chrysalis X Mercari Legacy Project by Sahil, Aniket, Liu & Shashank

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What is it?

MerAuctions is an online live auction portal where users can register for multiple auction and submit bids to buy a product. When the auction ends, the bidder who chose the highest value is declared the winner.

How do run locally?

Install MongoDB

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew install mongodb-community@4.2
mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf --fork
ps -ef | grep mongod #check if mongodb is working

Start the App

go run cmd/auctions/merauctions.go --mongodb-url=mongodb://localhost:27017/testing --database=testing

• If you want to populate initial data you can run cd server/seed-data/ && go run seeddb.go

Technologies Used

Front-end

• Materialize CSS
• jQuery
• Go templates

Back-end

• ginkgo
• JWT

Database

• MongoDB

Deployment

• Kubernetes
• CircleCI
• Docker
• GCP

Essential Features

• Sellers can start new auctions
• Tags and Description auto generation
  • CAP-THAT-PIC
• Search based on tags
• Rewards system for bidding

Engineering Challenges

• Get public URL for images uploaded by users
• Connection with remote CAP-THAT-PIC server
• Poor MongoDB support for GoLang

Future Goals

• Personalized Dashboard : Recommendations based on user’s interests
• User Profile
• Trending Auctions
• Google Signup
• Filters (Base Price, End Time, etc.)

StyleGuide for Codebase

Please refer to the StyleGuide here