This Web application connects potential donors to caseworkers’ housing insecure and homeless clients. The app displays individual client’s item needs.

• Website
• Technologies used
• Dependencies
• Developers
• To Install on local machine
• Screenshots
• Acknowledgements

https://giving-goods.herokuapp.com/

• MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJS)
• CSS3
• HTML5
• jQuery
• NPM packages

NPM packages

1. body-parser (Node.js body parsing middleware)
2. express (Web framework)
3. express-session (Simple session middleware for Express)
4. axios (Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js)
5. bcrypt-nodejs (A native JS bcrypt library for NodeJS.)
6. bluebird (Full featured Promises)
7. mongoose (Mongoose MongoDB ODM)
8. passport (Authentication for Node.js.)
9. passport-local (Local username and password authentication strategy for Passport.)
10. react (JavaScript library for building user interfaces.)
11. create-react-class (A drop-in replacement for React.createClass)
12. react-dom (React package for working with the DOM.)
13. react-notification-system (A React Notification System fully customized)
14. react-router (Declarative routing for React)
15. nodemailer (Sending e-mail from Node.js app)

Erin Glabe, Yousra Elbana

Minhtuyen Mai, Radhika Sivarajan

• Git Clone the repository to your local machine.

• Go to the config directory and change development environment properties.

• Navigate to the folder where the repository in Terminal.

• Run the command npm install to download the required dependencies.

• Run webpack and mongodb commands to initialize the connections and update bundle.js.

• Then type node server.js in terminal inside the directory.

• Then run below address on browser.

  localhost:3000

We would like to thank our instructors: George and Brandon, for their guidance and knowledge. As well as our TAs: Felipe and Travis for their assistance.