A social media website done as a team project for Makers.

The project was created in two weeks by six Makers students, to improve our understanding of JavaScript and to practice working in a team with agile and scrum practices, pair programming, problem solving, test-driving, github workflow.

The initial state of the project includes database setup and a barebones web app. Additional functionality has been added by the team, complete with design, implementation and full test coverage.

Deployed heroku app: https://dmeowbook.herokuapp.com/

Tech Stack

Languages

Frameworks, Library

IDE, Group, Other

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TEAM Priceless

Installation

Make sure you have NPM and Node.js installed, then

Clone this repository
Install Node.js dependencies
```
npm install
```
Install an ESLint plugin for your editor. For example: linter-eslint for Atom.
Install MongoDB@5
Start MongoDB
```
sudo systemctl start mongod
```

Start

Start the server
```
npm start
```
Browse to http://localhost:3000

Start test server

The server must be running locally with test configuration for the integration tests to pass.

npm run start:test

This starts the server on port 3030 and uses the acebook_test MongoDB database, so that integration tests do not interact with the development server.

Test

Run all tests
```
npm test
```

Run a check

npm run lint              # linter only
npm run test:unit         # unit tests only
npm run test:integration  # integration tests only

Team Charter

We are team Priceless

Bearing in mind the EQ learning we’ve done with Dana and elsewhere, we want to foster a good team to work in.

We plan to meet:

At 10am for morning standup (15min)
At 1.30pm for afternoon standup (15min)
At 5pm for a retro at the end of the day

We value:

Communication
Honesty
Growth
Teamwork and Support (Slack channel, Retros)
FUN!!!!

These roles rotate every 1.5 days:

👑Scrum Master/Leader
- Scrum Master
  - Runs team’s Agile processes and meetings
  - Helps arrange backlog of tasks
  - Facilitates resolution of disagreements and conflicts
  - Helps clarify tasks and assists in estimation of those tasks
- Leader
  - Makes sure that everyone is working on the right tasks
  - Makes sure everyone is working well together
✍🏽Scribe + Reporter/Helper
- Scribe + Reporter
  - Makes notes about group activities and meetings
  - Reports what the group is working on and has done, both within the team and externally
- Helper
  - Looks out for members who have taken on too much as well as members who don’t have enough to do
  - Looks out for the health of other members, ensures they’re taking breaks
  - Finds ways to keep team motivation up and makes sure successes are celebrated
💡Challenger + Ideas Person
- Tries to think of what might go wrong
- Tries to think of alternative ideas to solve problems
- Explains these ideas to the team
⚙️Technician
- Looks after the team’s tools and materials (github, etc.)
- Makes sure everyone has the tools they need to do their job

Work Flows

Pairing
- Pull latest version of main
- Check-out a new branch / existing branch for your ticket
- Work in branch, and keep committing upstream
- Merge latest main again before pull request to avoid merge conflicts
- Submit pull-request
- Move card on Trello
- Add PR link to card
- Alert team on Slack
Trello protocol
- If a pair is working on it, it has your name on it
- If it needs review, it has the reviewers name
- If it has been reviewed and needs updating, it is in the Updating column
- If you are the second reviewer and all is ok, accept & merge
During pairings, resolve challenges by:
- Debugging and stuck on a 1 hour+ blocker? ask for help!
- Need to chat about something? Write on Slack
- Need to know the answer now? Directly join a pair with whom you’d like to discuss an urgent issue.
- Cannot move on unless big issue is resolved as a team? Ask scrum master for help