Do you know that in the US about a third college students drop out? Not only they don't become Steve Jobs, they do less well than those who finish their degrees. Lack of engagement is a big factor behind this problem. Campfire is a social learning platform designed to make college more engaging for students, therefore reduce the dropout rate. How does it do it? The trifecta of a chat app like Discord, an AI-powered study companion, and a course management system for professors. We believe the combination of these three tools can produce great results.
This React app is built using Material UI. It relies on the Ruby on Rails API server for data access and authentication.
First get an Oauth client ID from your local database used by Ruby on Rails backend. Make sure you have run seeds.rb against development database. Then in Rails console run Doorkeeper::Application.where(name: 'Web') to get an application object. Copy the uid - this is your client ID for web development.
Make a copy of .env.sample and name it .env.development.local. Then paste the Oauth client ID like so:
REACT_APP_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=<your Oauth client ID>
Finally run npm start to start the app in the development mode. Then open http://localhost:8080 to view it in your browser.
Mostly we use Docker Compose to run API and web containers together. The docker-compose.yaml file is in the campfire-api repo.
Here is how you build the Docker image: docker build -t campfire-web .
If you need to run it individually (API should be already running):
docker run --env-file .env.development.local -p 8080:8080 campfire-web
This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.