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

1. cd InforMee-Backend
2. run rails s -p 3001
3. open a second tab in your terminal
4. cd InforMee-Frontend
5. run npm start
6. it will ask if you want to run on a different port other than port 3000 currently hosting your rails server
7. Y for yes
8. 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!