README.md

Roam

A travel site providing traveler reviews of restaurants, hotels and fun activities!

• Robust RESTful API that runs on an Express server.
• Implemented authentication and session and used a Postgres database to store the session data.
• Enforced MVC principles.

Link to Live Site

Setting up Development Environment

• Clone the repository
• Install your dependencies: npm install
• Create your database: npm run db:create
• Load the schema and seed data: npm run db:reset
• Create a .env file and copy and paste the content of the .env.template file and insert your own environment variables.
• Run the server: npm run start:dev

Technical Stack

Back End

• Node.js
• Express.js (Documentation)

Database

• PostgreSQL
  • pg-promise

Front End

• Pug
• Materialize