PAYBACK APP

GDI 2022 Hackathon award winner loan tracker application. Registered users may make borrow requests to another user, who will approve or deny it. If approved, the transaction gets tracked until paid-off.

Table of contents

• Overview
  • The Goal
  • Screenshots
  • Links
• Tech
  • Built With
  • Running
• Contributors

Overview

Four day hackathon event hosted by Girl, Develop it! A team of eight was put together to solve the following problem:

• Sometimes lending money to friends and family members can cause some stress. Its always easy for someone we care about to simply "forget" to pay us back, generating a possible uncomfortable situation.

The Goal

Deliver MVP with the following features:

• Login/Register
• Create Borrow Requests
• Have lender approve or deny the request
• Track that transaction
• Ability for the lender to mark a transaction as "paid"
• Ability for the lender to rate the borrower

Screenshots

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/jackieodonnell/PayBack-App
• Live MVP: https://paybackapp.onrender.com/

Tech

Built With

• Frontend
  • React.js with CRA TypeScript templated
• Backend
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Jest
• DB
  • Postgres
• Tech
  • Discord
  • Slack
  • VS Code live-share extension
  • git/Github
• Management
  • Agile/SCRUM
  • Github Projects

Running

Fork/Clone

• Fork/Clone project
• On the root, run npm install to install backend dependencies
• cd client and run npm install to install client dependencies
• Create .env file on the root and add: TOKEN_SECRET=chooseStringWithoutQuotes

DB Set up

do once on local machine - from home directory

• (Mac) brew install postgresql
• brew services start postgresql
• psql postgres
• CREATE ROLE postgres WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'postgres1';
• ALTER ROLE postgres CREATEDB;
• \q
• psql postgres -U postgres

do every time re-setting database - from project directory

• cd server/database
• sh create.sh

Run development

• At the root, run npm run dev to start the API
• On a second terminal, cd client and npm start

Contributors

SCRUM Master

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👉 Cappreccia Swanson 📧 capprecciaswanson@gmail.com 💻 Linkedin

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Data Analyst

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👉 Alondra Perez Cortez 📧 apcalondraperezcortez@gmail.com 💻 Portfolio

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Product Owner

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👉 LaToya Simon 📧 1stforgottentoy@gmail.com 💻 Github

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UI/UX

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👉 Audra Omlie 📧 audraomlie@gmail.com 💻 Linkedin

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Frontend

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👉 Olivia Bloway 📧 Linkedin 💻 Portfolio

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👉 Denasia Furniss 📧 denasiafurniss@gmail.com 💻 Portfolio

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Backend

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👉 Jacqueline O'Donnell 📧 Linkedin 💻 Github

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👉 Aryse Tansy 📧 paganowebdev@gmail.com 💻 Portfolio

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