Today, in some areas of the world it’s really tough to raise money! And on the flip, those who want to invest, don’t know how to meet and find entrepreneurs that are working on projects they find exciting. This website will allow startups to raise money (like Kickstarter) and reward investors with equity in their company!
Startups (entrepreneurs) and investors!
Create a marketplace for entrepreneurs to upload their startups and for investors to browse through ideas they might be interested in investing in.
You wil need MongoDB to run this app. You can download it here. Then in your /server .env file, add your mongo uri as MONGO_URI. You can generally find your mongo uri as the port where your MongoDB is running followed by /Name of the database
Ex: mongodb://localhost:{PORT NUMBER}/{DATABASE NAME} The default port is usually 27017.
You will also need proper AWS credentials to run this app locally. You can sign up for a free account here. Once signed up look "My Security Credentials" in the drop down menu under your name on the upper right corner of the AWS navigation bar. Under access keys, generate your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY keys and place them in your /server .env file. Create a new bucket in the AWS s3 service and take note of the name of the bucket as well as the region you select. Save these variables as AWS_REGION and AWS_BUCKETrespectively. For development make sure in the permissions tab of your bucket, turn OFF "Block public access to buckets and objects granted through new access control lists (ACLs)" and "Block public access to buckets and objects granted through any access control lists (ACLs)
Create a Stripe account at stripe.com. Save the secret key and the public key -- there will be a test and a live version for each. Add the public key to the client .env as REACT_APP_STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY= Add the secret key to the server .env as STRIPE_SECRET_KEY= On the client side install react-stripe-elements. On the server install stripe.
You can find test card numbers and tokens at stripe.com/docs/testing#cards
Install server dependencies by running the command npm install in the root directory of this project.
Client packages are setup by running npm install or npm ci in the client directory.
Set up a .env file in the client folder with REACT_APP_JWT_SECRET set to the backend JWT secret
and REACT_APP_SOCKET_ENDPOINT to the backend url, there is a client/sample.env for reference
Note: bcrypt relies on python 2.7 need to have it in path when installing bcrypt