PricePoint

A price comparison application in which users can submit an item of interest to track across various online vendors and can show basic historical price fluctuations since the item has initially been queried. Users can signup and login to see their saved list of items that they have searched to track.

Team

• Ryan Breeden
• Ian Mobley
• Kiyeon Park
• Jason Stieber

Roadmap

View the project roadmap here

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Requirements
3. Development
   1. Installing Dependencies
   2. Tasks

Usage

Some usage instructions

Requirements

• Node 6.9.x
• Redis 3.2.x
• Postgresql 9.6.x
• etc

Development

Installing System Dependencies

brew install yarn
brew install redis
brew install postgresql

Yarn is a replacement for npm. It's faster and guarantees consistency -- as you deploy your code in various environments, you won't run the risk of slight variations in what gets installed.

Install Project Dependencies

yarn global add grunt-cli knex eslint

App Configuration

Override settings config/default.json in any environment by making a copy of config/ENV.example.json and naming it config/ENV.json and setting the appropriate variable.

For environments that require use of environment variables, you can supply variables as defined in config/custom-environment-variables.json.

See config package And custom environment variables

Database Initialization

IMPORTANT: ensure postgres is running before performing these steps.

Database Creation

Use grunt to create a new database for your development and test environments:

Development envronment: grunt pgcreatedb:default

Other environments, specify like so: NODE_ENV=test grunt pgcreatedb:default

Run Migrations & Data Seeds

In terminal, from the root directory:

To migrate to the latest version, run:

knex migrate:latest --env NODE_ENV

To rollback a version, run:

knex migrate:rollback --env NODE_ENV

To populate the database with seed data, run:

knex seed:run --env NODE_ENV

Note: --env NODE_ENV may be omitted for development. For example, knex migrate:latest will run all migrations in the development environment, while knex migrate:latest --env test will migrate in the test environment.

Running the App

To run webpack build: yarn run build

To run server: yarn run start

To run tests: yarn run test

To run your redis server for the session store redis-server