ayGre-ta

Social network for climate change warriors

Responsive app that shows the latest news on climate change and it lets users interact with each other

Demo

Live version https://aygre-ta.herokuapp.com/

Installing

In order to run this project locally do the following:

1. Clone the project
2. Run npm install to install all the dependencies
3. Change .envExample file name to .env and paste the required environment variables in the corresponding field
4. Run npm run dev to launch the application and access it at localhost:port

Features

• Main page shows a carousel with five of the latest news as well as some insightful information about the environment
• News page displays up to a hundred of the latest news on climate changes, environment, global warming...
• Users can sign up and login, both using Facebook and providing username and password
• When logged in, users can:
  • Favorite/unfavorite news using the leaf button, which will be saved in their favorite page
  • Look for users to follow using search bar
  • Manage their followers and following via opening modal window
  • Create their own posts and like posts from the people they follow by cliking the victory button
• Users will get a point per follower and two points per liked post
• Profile page shows a leaderboard of the Top 5 users as well as logged user's own score

To do:

• Include live chat
• Add editable user's settings and possibility to retrieve password when forgotten
• Implement live updating when users interact
• Create a discussion thread

Technologies

• Handlebars.js and Bootstrap to get the structure and styling of the app
• Express.js as the foundation to build the app's backend
• Mongoose.js to handle platform models and database

Overview

This is the second of three projects to be made during the Ironhack Web Development Bootcamp. It has been a great opportunity to work as a team to develop a full stack web application from the ground up, not following any kind of guideline or tutorial whatsoever.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to this project, you may add yourself to CONTRIBUTING.md

License

Please refer to LICENSE.md

Team

Ana Segarra

Jose Ángel Hernández