Group Calendar

https://white-wolf-team-calendar.herokuapp.com/

A simple and efficient calendar app which makes group event scheduling a lot easier.

• create new groups and instantly add members using their email address
• see all of your group members calendars in one place
• fully integrates with the Google calendars of all group members
• easily create, edit and delete group events on the fly

Authors:

• Hideaki Murakami
• Yinhu Cui
• Soumith Chittajallu

Getting Started

Clone and install dependencies

git clone https://github.com/BennyChun/Group-12-White-Wolf.git
cd Group-12-White-Wolf
npm install
cd client
npm install

Set-up MongoDB

• Visit the MongoDB website and download the current release version for your operating system.
• Complete the installation process for MongoDB and MongoDBCompassCommunity

Set-up the Google API Client

• Navigate to the Google Cloud Platform
• Go to Select a project → New Project and choose a desired Project Name, then click Create

1. OAuth consent screen

• Select User type as External then CREATE
• Enter the Application name as 'Group Calendar' and add the Google Calendar API to your scopes, then save

2. Credentials

• Click Credentials on the side bar on the left-hand side → + CREATE CREDENTIALS → OAuth client ID
• Select the Application Type as Web Application, Name as 'Group Calendar' and add http://localhost:10000/api/callback as an authorized redirect URI, then click CREATE.
• Download the credentials.json file (rename it to this as it may be called client_secret_....json when you download it) and add it to the project's root directory

Start the Application

From the root directory, in one terminal:
npm start
Open another terminal, then:
cd client
npm start
The application will be up and running, and the client can be found at http://localhost:3000/

The database can be explored by pasting the following connection string into MongoDBCompass Community:
mongodb://localhost:27017/groupCalendars?readPreference=primary&appname=MongoDB%20Compass%20Community&ssl=false

Project Information

A link to the Project Wiki can be found here
Group meeting minutes can be found here