Lighthouse Labs - Midterm Project

W6 Midterm project: Buy & Sell
Contributors: Edward Lee & Tai Delisle
Lighthouse Labs Cohort: Nov14 TELUS

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Project Details

Buy/Sell Listing Website

• An app where you can put different types of things up for sale.
• You can pick a specific niche of items to sell for the app (a cars site, a shoes site, etc).
• This lets buyers find the items they are looking for quickly, and easily contact sellers.

User requirements

• Users can see featured items on the homepage
• Users can filter items by price
• Users can add items to a favourites list
• Users can send messages to a seller
• Sellers can post items
• Sellers can remove items from the site
• Sellers can mark items as sold
• Sellers can reply to messages sent to them

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Freedom Auto Market

Freedom Auto Market is a buy/sell platform for the private sale of cars, catered towards quality vehicles, including luxury brands.

Warnings

• Login/user registration functionality was not implemented.
  • To focus on the development of the site, ten user accounts were created in the database.
  • Access these accounts through the login URL: /login/# where # is a userId between 1 and 10
• 'Sent to phone/email' links are not currently functional

Screenshots

Login

Homepage

Featured Cars

Search options

Search results

Listing page (for regular users)

My Listings

Listing page (for listing owner)

Messages Inbox

Coversation view

New listing

Planning docs/files

Files related to planning (ERD, wireframe, working log) can be found in the planning directory.

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Getting Started

1. Download or clone this repo
2. Set up a local database on your machine called midterm and ensure there is a user role/pass of labber
3. Create a .env file in the main directory with the following local information

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_USER=labber
DB_PASS=labber
DB_NAME=midterm
DB_PORT=5432

4. Install dependencies: npm i
5. Fix to binaries for sass: npm rebuild node-sass
6. Reset the database: npm run db:reset
7. Run the server: npm run local
8. Visit http://localhost:8080/

Warning

• Login/user registration functionality was not implemented. To focus on the development of the site, ten user accounts were created in the database.
• Access these accounts through the login URL: /login/# where # is a userId between 1 and 10

Dependencies

• Node 10.x or above
• NPM 5.x or above
• PG 6.x
• Chaulk
• Cookie parser
• dotenv
• ejs
• Morgan
• SASS
• Nodemon (for development)