CodeLink

'CodeLink' is a social networking platform for developers to meet and share their skills. Users can create a profile, update it, fetch their github repositories and add it to their portfolio, add skills to their profile, follow the news and engage on a discussion board by adding projects and interacting with them via likes and comments. Although the team attempted authentication integration, it remained a work-in-progress by project end.

Peek into the UI

Be sure to watch this little intro video into CodeLink

Getting started

Prerequisittes

Before running this project, ensure you have installed the following software on your machine:

• nodejs
• postgreSQL

Make sure your postgreSQL server is running.

For local development we used a .env file to hold local environment properties like the database connection. Set the following in your .env file:

postgresql://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/DATABASE?schema=SCHEMA

We used the following:

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:codeworks@localhost:5432/CodeLink?schema=public"

Furthermore, a News API Key is needed. Register on the site newsapi.org to get one.

Install

Run the command to install node packages based on your local environment (e.g. 'npm install') in /client and /server. Following commands assume you are in the root folder.

Root

npm install

Server

Start the server:

cd ./server
npm install
npm run dev

To interact with the postgreSQL db we used Prisma studio and had a good experience with it. You can use it by running:

cd ./server
npx prisma studio

Client

cd ./client
npm install
npm run dev

Techstack

• Typescript
• Express
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• Prisma.io
• Next.js
• CSS
• Cyprss
• Jest
• Superetest
• auth0

Project Status

The work on this project has ended.

Contributors

• Github: @miriamCodes
• Github: @adamlebreee
• Github: @P-C-R-P
• Github: @flores5545