Project Description

Full stack buy and sell website built with NodeJS, Express and PostgreSQL.

Features

• Users
• Create new listings
• Delete listings if you are the owner or admin
• Admin account with superuser permissions
• Messaging functionality for sending and recieving messages
• Notifications for unread messages
• Various filtering options
• Users can update account information
• Users can favourite listings

A live version can be viewed here: https://buythingssellthings.herokuapp.com/

Getting Started

1. Create the .env by using .env.example as a reference: cp .env.example .env
2. Update the .env file with your correct local information

• username: labber
• password: labber
• database: midterm

3. Install dependencies: npm i
4. Fix to binaries for sass: npm rebuild node-sass
5. Reset database: npm run db:reset

• Check the db folder to see what gets created and seeded in the SDB

7. Run the server: npm run local

• Note: nodemon is used, so you should not have to restart your server

8. Visit http://localhost:8080/

Dependencies

• Node 10.x or above
• NPM 5.x or above
• PostgreSQL 6.x

NPM Dependencies

• body-parser
• chalk
• dotenv
• ejs
• express
• morgan
• node-sass-middleware
• pg
• pg-native

CDN Dependencies

• Bootstrap
• jQuery 3.2.1 min
• moment.js 2.29.1 min
• wow.js
• animate.css

Contributors

• Michael Krishna github: https://github.com/mkrishna768
• Marcel Mueller github: https://github.com/marcellmueller
• Cameron Brown github: https://github.com/CamBrown101