Furnitrade

Developer

FTP (Furniture Trade Platform)

Dependencies

• ReactJS: https://reactjs.org
• MongoDB: https://www.mongodb.com Please go to MongoDB.com to download the latest version of Mongo DB.
• Flask: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/installation/#installation refer this page to install Flask for back-end developing Please do use virtual environment for the dependencies so that python will not messed up with other projects' dependencies
• http://api.mongodb.com/python/current/installation.html PyMongo: Driver for mongoDB, please follow the instruction to install in virtual environment

To assist your development, recommend have the following development tools:

• Chrome: https://chrome.com For front-end debugging
• Postman: https://getpostman.com For back end development
• Robo3T: https://robomongo.org For Mongo DB Management

Deploy on localhost from noting

Clone from github

1. clone from https://github.com/WenlinMao/cse110-project using git clone https://github.com/WenlinMao/cse110-project.git
2. input username and password for github if asked

Set up flask for Backend

3. navigate to source/flask
4. run python3 -m venv venv to create an empty virtual environment
5. activate virtual using . venv/bin/activate
6. within virtual environment run pip install -r requirements.txt
7. run python3 application.py and make sure there is no error

Set up React.js for Frontend

8. open a new terminal and remain application.py executed
9. navigate to source/react
10. download the newest npm through https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm
11. use npm -v to check if npm has installed
12. run npm install to install all packages
13. run npm run start to start to frontend server
14. click OK if your computer ask for permission
15. our website will be automatically opened in Chrome (or your default browser)

p.s: Currently, our website only works with Chrome. If it opens in other browsers, please just copy the url and put it in Chrome.

Troubleshooting

• Sometimes uploading image takes longer than page loading due to the speed of AWS S3. Please wait a few seconds after adding new furniture or new user. If the newly added furniture or user still doesn't load, please try to wait a few seconds and refresh the page.
• Sometimes pymongo will throw timeout error. This is because of the poor network connection. Try switch to another wifi and try again.
• All error output can be viewed in Chrome or flask prompts. Please try to fix bugs refer to the error message.
• If there are any other problems, please try to reinstall react or flask on the devises.

Test Data

• Account 1:

username: xxxxxx
email: xxxxxx@ucsd.edu
address: xxxxman dr.
password: Xxxxxx123!

• Account 2:

username: Testxxxxxx
email: w6mao@ucsd.edu
address: Peterson Hall
password: Wenlin1997@

Video Demo

Youtube Link