Gift Recommender - Backend

Discover FANTASTIC GIFTS for friends and family. Built for lazy people that want to dazzle their loved ones.

Feature List

• Search for Gift Ideas based on Budget
• View Purchase links for Gift Ideas
• Explore Gift Ideas
• Contribute Gift Suggestions

This project assumes you have Git installed.

Setup

For developers to get started with this project, you'll need to create a local copy of the project.

Run the following in your terminal:

 git clone https://github.com/ajibs/gift-recommender-service.git

Then change into the local directory, run the following in your terminal:

cd gift-recommender-service

Docker

You'll need to have Docker installed to proceed with setting up the project.

To start a docker container for Gift Recommender Service, run this command in the terminal:

./start_container.sh

N/B: You might have permission problems on a Unix, please visit the following link to resolve potential file permission issues.

The start container script will link you to the bash terminal of a running container.

You can then proceed to the Development Section or the Linting & Tests Section to run sample code.

Development

To kickstart the application, run the following in your terminal:

npm run dev

Linting and Tests

You can run linting and unit/regression tests by running the following in your terminal:

npm run test:all

Tech Stack

• Git - Version Control
• Node.js - JS Runtime Environment
• npm - Package Manager
• Express - Web Framework
• Mocha - Testing Framework
• MySQL - Database
• Heroku - Hosting and Continuous Deployment

Contributing

Contributions are welcome

Authors

• Bolu Ajibawo - Medium

License

• MIT