gyftee

Get personalized, surprising and irreverent gift ideas for your family and friends.

Dev Team

• Product Owner: Eric Le
• Scrum Master: Jennie Kim Eldon
• Development Team: Ben Biran, Chris Saden

Installing Dependencies

Type these commands to get started:

1. npm install node dependencies
2. bower install bower dependencies
3. brew install mongodb if you need to install mongoDB client
4. create /data/db folder at root directly if it doesn't exist already
5. run mongod process from the terminal

Tech Stack

Front End

• React
• Redux
• Reapp

Back End

• Node/Express
• MongoDB/Mongoose

Testing

• Mocha/Chai

Build System

• Webpack

Deployment

• CircleCI
• Elastic Beanstalk

Roadmap

• Product scope (Asana)
• Sprint schedule (Asana)

Build First Principles

• Save time and reduce human error through task automation
• Enforce modular, scalable application design
• Make testing and maintenance easier
• Ensure that releases conform to performance best practices
• Test all deployed code prior to release

Build First Components

1. Build Process

• Create tests and tasks to compile the application (automated)
• Aimed at facilitating continuous development (later can re-tune to focus on max performance)

2. Design

• Code and augment application architecture
• Refactor code
• Update tests and iterate

3. Deployment and Environment

• Automate the release process
• Configure different host environments, and define the services and databases they interact with
• Deliver changes to hosted environment

Contributing

See _CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.