InforMee-WebApp
With a Rails back-end and a React front-end, Informee seeks to shed some light on American politics by allowing users to view the newest bills being introduced to the House, before becoming laws in the Senate.
Getting Started
- App usese PostgreSql as a database, can't be run without it. Currently working on a solution by using AWS
- Link to my youtube video walk through of the app
Prerequisites
- postgres
- ruby
- npm
Installing
- cd InforMee-Backend
- run
rails s -p 3001
- open a second tab in your terminal
- cd InforMee-Frontend
- run npm start
- it will ask if you want to run on a different port other than port 3000 currently hosting your rails server
- Y for yes
- Site should be accessible on
http://localhost:3000/
if you have no other apps running in the background.
Built With
- React.js - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
- Ruby on Rails - a server-side web application framework written in Ruby
- PostgreSQL - an object-relational database management system
- Semantic UI - a development framework using human-friendly HTML
Authors
- Kurt Bauer - github.com/krtb
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
Acknowledgments
Thanks to the Flatiron School!