![Bird-Watchers-Paradise]

• Description
• Features
• Installation Instructions
• Development
• Live Link
• Setup Instructions and Technology
• License

Bird-Watchers-Paradise is a web application meant to be help users turn their browsers into their best and most-used birding resource.

Spotted a bird? Identify it using the bird watchers paradise catalog that has a detailed explanation of what you’re seeing - allowing you to compare bird's distinct appearance and behavior to your current bird sighting.

Users can further upload their sighting to the bird watchers paradise gallery! Why not share the beauty with fellow bird watchers who can rate your bird watching skills?.

This is a bird-watchers-paradise website with a front-end made using React and a backend made with Active records, Sinatra and Sqlite3. Active Record allowed us to create three models, User, Bird and Sighting that could communicate with the tables, userss, birdss and sightings in the Sqlite3 database with the help of migrations that I created. In each model there exists a defined Active Record associations for example:

Bird has_many Sightings and has_many Users.

Sightings has_one User and has_one Bird.

User has_many Birds and has_many Sightings.

Sinatra helped in creating api endpoints that could be used by React frontend to get, post, delete and update the birds and its sightings. Through the use of routing methods that Sinatra provided like get, post, patch and delete Active Record and Sinatra also provided methods that could be used to initiate a new instance of the classes, User, Bird and RSighting and be able to associate them.

The front-end is diployed in vercel hosting service while the Sinatra is hosted in heroku.

A user visiting this page would be able to see:

1. A home page populated with birds from different regions.

2. A top navigation section with links to view the bird database and the option to upload a sighting.

3. A user can filter birds by name or by characteristics and view the filtered cards.

4. A user can visit the upload sightings page and they are provided with tools to post, edit, and delete a sighting.

• Used Visual Studio Code editor to create the front-end with React and backend with Active Record, Sinatra, Sqlite3

• Styled-components - was used to create the structure and the styling of the website.

• React - help in creating interactive website

Active Record, Sinatra, Sqlite3 helped in creating the database, the three main models, Birds, Sightings, and User and their associations. Also in creating the tables users, birdss, and sightingss and and routing to be used in the frontend by clients for get, post and delete

• chrome browser/any other browser
• Internet connection
• Navigate to the git repository
• Fork the repo using the fork button on this repository
• Git clone the forked repository to your local machine.
• Then perform the following two steps to run the Application:

• Open the backend folder on A terminal
• Then, run bundle install to install require gems
• Afte running migrations using rake, rake db:seed to populate the database.
• run (rackup confifg.ru) to run the backend

• Navigate to the frontEnd folder and open it in the terminal
• run (npm start) to run the applicationon the browser.
• Done..! the site is up and running locally.

Want to contribute? Excellent!

To enhance or contribute on the existing project, follow these steps:

• Fork the repo
• Create a new branch (git checkout -b enhance-feature)
• Make the appropriate changes in the files
• Add changes to reflect the changes made
• Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Enhanced feature')
• Push to the branch (git push origin enhance-feature)
• Create a Pull Request

- Click this link to see the live website

MIT License

Copyright (c) [2022] [Ivy Ronoh]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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