Swap Shop – Campus Reuse Platform

A secure, local web app for students & faculty to donate, reserve, and reuse items.

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Features

• Login with college email
• Donate items with photos
• Reserve items
• My Items: Donated & Reserved in 2 columns
• Purple header + profile icon → logout
• Fully offline (after first run)
• Data stored in Excel (items.xlsx)
• Images in uploads/ID/

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How to Run on Any Computer

1. Prerequisites

• Node.js (v18 or higher)
• Excel (to edit items.xlsx)

Tools & Technologies Used

Tool Purpose

• Node.js Backend server
• Express.js Web framework
• EJS HTML templating
• MulterFile upload handling
• XLSX (SheetJS)Read/write Excel files
• HTML/CSS/JS Frontend

2. Unzip & Setup

download swap-shop.zip
unzip swap-shop.zip
cd swap-shop
npm install //installs the required Tools and Packages using the json file 
node server/index.js

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Testing

Jest is popular all-in-one testing framework for Node.js, with the help of supertest it allows for easy and fast testing it can be run using 'npm test (file location)'