A peer-to-peer marketplace for finding help with side projects. Users can post their projects with descriptions while others can contact owners of interesting projects to help them.
Motivations for creating this project include seeing friends as well as myself always lose motivation while trying build a cool project due to numerous reasons such as too much work or not enough time. Hopefully this will help connect people together to motivate them to finish their projects.
Finally, this was created as a learning experience for myself so I hope to share what I learned for all people who want to go into web development.
The application is mostly React on the front-end with a lot of different packages from the ecosystem such as Redux, ReactBootstrap, and React-Router v4. The back-end is built with NodeJS with Express while using MongoDB (Mongoose) as a database. Most of the code is written in ES6 but the server-side stuff needs to be updated.
The bundler being used is Webpack with Babel helping to transpile the Javascript code.
The project is currently being hosted on Heroku cause it's cheap and easy but I'd like to be able to migrate it off there one day.
In order to run the project locally you'll need node installed as well as nvm.
Install Homebrew
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Follow instructions here to install node and nvm
brew install node
brew install nvm
Once installed you should be able to run npm install which will fetch all the necessary dependencies for you. If anything seems to fail, clear out your node_modules and try again.
To start up the project there are two options, npm start or npm start dev, both running on port 3040.
npm start dev has hot-reloading as it's running the webpack dev server. It's a little buggy so it's not currently recommended until somebody goes around to fixing it up.
npm start is the one I generally use. It'll automatically repackage on changes and you'll just need to refresh to see your changes propagated.
Neither of the options will reload the node server if changes are made to server.js. You'll need to restart it currently if changes are made.
Note: There is one bug that occurs when making multiple changes in the css files. It'll error out on the browser and you'll have to restart the server.
In the spirit of the project itself, please feel free to contribute to any open issues. Some may need environment variables, which can be given if you contact me.
For all issues please create a pull request with a new branch labelled feature/{ issue name } and submit a pull request to develop when ready.
Thanks!