ireporter-frontend

iReporter is a web application that enables any/every citizen to bring any form of corruption to the notice of appropriate authorities and the general public. Users can also report on things that needs government intervention.

Usage

• On the browser, visit the following url :

  • iReporter-frontend

Requirements

For development, you will only need Node.js installed on your environment and the node module create-react-app to generate a boilerplate version of a React application.

$ node --version
v8.10.0

$ npm --version
3.5.2

You will use npm to install the create-react-app command line interface (CLI) globally (-g).

$ npm install -g create-react-app

Prerequisites

Html5, CSS3, ES6, ReactJs 

Application Features

• Create an incident record
• Keep track of incident status

A normal user can perform the following :

• Create an incident record
• View his/her posted incidents
• Edit and update an incident.
• Delete an incident.

An admin user can perform the following :

• Update status of a posted incident record
• View all incidents posted.
• View a list of registered users.
• Make a normal user an admin.

How To Manually Test It:

1. Clone this repository:

`git clone https://github.com/katherine95/ireporter-frontend`

2. Change the directory into the project directory:

`cd ireporter-frontend`

3. Checkout to develop branch:

`git checkout develop`

4. Install project dependencies:

`npm install`

5. Start the server to run the app in the development mode.

`npm start`

Simple build for production

$ npm run build

Update sources

Some packages usages might change so you should run npm prune & npm install often. A common way to update is by doing

$ git pull
$ npm prune
$ npm install

To run those 3 commands you can just do

$ npm run pull

Static server with Livereload

The app embed for development a static connect server with livereload plugged. So each time you start the app, you get automatic refresh in the browser whenever you update a file.