The Challenge

Build a tool that allows a user to upload their pitch deck and display it on a web page.

At a minimum, you should have:

1. A web page that allows a user to upload a file as a PDF. Bonus points for supporting PPT and other formats too.
2. A backend that takes the uploaded file and generates an image for each slide.
3. A web page that displays the deck using the image of each slide, like on the Wefunder profile page.

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There are two ways to view this repo

1. Live at http://wefunder-hw.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/ (Recommended)

   1. Home
   2. Raise Money
   3. View all companies currently raising
   4. View one company currently raising (Airbnb)

2. Self setup

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Self setup

• Self setup instructions

  🚦 Getting Started

  1. Download necessary software

     A few types of software are needed for the conversion of different filetypes. Below are instructions for installing them on Ubuntu

  2. Node >= 12.x

     sudo apt install nodejs
     sudo apt install npm

  3. graphicsmagick

     sudo apt install graphicsmagick

  4. ghostscript

     sudo apt install ghostscript

  5. LibreOffice

     Note the location of where this is installed as it is needed later in the environment setup

     sudo apt install libreoffice

  6. Clone the repository

     git clone https://github.com/Ryanjso/wefunder-hw

  7. Set up environment variables

     In the server folder is a file called .env.example. This holds all of the necessary environment variables to create this project.

     Copy the file once, name the new file .env, and add the necessary values. Do not commit this file to the Github repo

     # In .env
     # default is: mongodb://localhost:27017/{databaseName}
     # Database. if you use MongoAtlas they will provide a connection string
     MONGO_CONNECTION=
     
     # AWS S3 Info
     AWS_ACCESS_ID=
     AWS_ACCESS_SECRET=
     AWS_BUCKET_NAME=
     
     # LibreOffice
     # The location of Libre Office on your device
     # Ex: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice
     SOFFICE_LOCATION=

  8. Install the npm modules

     # Inside the server directory
     npm install

     # Inside the angular-wefunder-hw directory
     npm install

     Run server/development environment:

     # inside the server directory
     npm start

  9. View server

     (It will likely run on this specified port unless it is in use). Visit http://localhost:3000/ to view your site

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😃 Developer

Ryan Soderberg

Email: ryanjsoderberg@gmail.com