Group project website for CSCD 378

Table of Contents

• Screenshots
• Frontend Installation Instructions
• Backend Installation Instructions
• Research
• Changelog

Screenshots

Front End Instructions

• Install npm and node. If you are using Windows, it can help to install 'node version manager' from github.
• CD into the directory where the website is located.
• Type "npm start"
• The website should open automatically in your default browser, if not try to open src/Index.js

Back End Instructions

Database

• You may be able to open the "Schema" file in a text editor and use the text as a creation script. Otherwise, follow these instructions:
• Install and run a MySQL Server on Localhost and create a connection to the server in MySQL workbench with the Username and Password set as "root".
• After opening the connection, in the "Navigator" section, click on "Administration" on the bottom of the section. Then, click "Data Import/Restore", then in the main tab, select "Import from Self-Contained File".
• Select the file named "Schema" from wherever you download our project.
• Then select "Start Import". Everything should be imported under a schema titled "forum".

Spring Boot

• Make sure the database is open and running.
• In IntelliJ, select "New Project From Existing Sources".
• Go to wherever you downloaded our project and select the "SpringBackend" folder.
• Select "Import project from external model", then select "Maven".
• Click finish, then everything should be imported and there should be Run Configuration automatically set up. (You may have to wait for the Maven libraries to import and index if you don't have them already)
• Run the application, and it should launch with no errors. You can access the backend by typing "localhost:8080" (or whatever port it launched on, which it shows in the console) in your browser. This should show a JSON object containing the congregations, posts in the congregations, and comments on those posts. You can also look at the "GetMapping" annotations in the controllers if you would like to test anything specific with the connection between the application and the database.

Website Research

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NPWpYAwBD5oAPUVvpAJWj2N7lKmisHru3RZEa26Zu4k/edit#

Changelog

1/30/2023 - 2/5/2023 Finished our presentation to the class Effectively started progress on the project Posted v1 UML wireframe of the website Posted the v1 UML for database schema We still do not have a name for the website

Back-end progress:
		Added Java files for backend
	
Front-end progress:
		index.html started
		style.css started
		Congregation.js started

2/6/2023 - 2/12/2023 Prepared for our WCAG presentation

Back-end progress:

Front-end progress:
		figma configured properly

2/13/2023 - 2/19/2023 presented our WCAG topics and solutions

Back-end progress: 
		database queries for jscript written

Front-end progress:
		css started

2/20/2023 - 2/26/2023

Back-end progress: 
		finished jscript queries
		started on websocket
			

Front-end progress: 
		various skeleton pages added

2/27/2023 - 3/5/2023 Started implementation of cookies Core of the website still under development Back-end data structures almost finished

Back-end progress:
		Copied all queries from jscript to Springboot
		
Front-end progress:
		Furthered development of CSS code
		Polished the React code
		Implemented Avatars for users

3/6/2023 - 3/12/2023 Fixed the CSS and functionality for the navbar many CSS additions to navbar, new profile, congregation

Back-end progress:
		Worked on connection between DB and front-end
Front-end progress:
		CSS additions