PostIt

PostIt is a simple application that allows friends and colleagues create groups for notifications. Users can post broadcast messages to groups and other group members will get notification based on the message priority.

Features

PostIt allows users to do the following.

• Register and log into their accounts.
• Create broadcast groups and add other users to the groups
• Post messages to a group with message priority
  • Group members get in-app notifications for normal messages.
  • Group members get in-app and email notifications for urgent messages.
  • Group members get in-app, email and SMS notifications for critical messages.
• Retrieve all the messages posted to groups they belong to based on their read status when they are signed in.

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Folder structure

The template directory contains the UI template for the front-end in HTML/CSS

The server directory houses the back-end implementation in NodeJS-Express-Postgres

The client directory houses the front-end implementation in ReactJS (Redux)

Technology Stack

• Front-end: React/Redux, SASS, Webpack
• Back-end: Node/Express, Sequelize/Postgres
• Nexmo: For sending SMS notifications

Get Started

1. Clone the repository, navigate to the folder and run npm install to install dependencies.
2. Setup Postgres
3. Set up your database credentials in server/config/config.js. See sample file
4. Run $ sequelize db:migrate to run database migrations
5. Create a Nexmo account and get your API details for SMS notification
6. Create a .env file in your root directory and follow the example pattern below to set up environment variables. See sample file
7. To start app, navigate to the root directory of the app and run node run start:dev in development ( This is start up the app with nodemon watching for changes ) or npm start in production.

API documentation

You can find the Documentation for the PostIt Restful API here.

Test

This app uses Mocha, Chai-Http for API tests, Jest, Enzyme for frontend tests and Nightwatch for end-to-end tests

• Run npm i mocha -g to install Mocha globally and npm i nyc -g to install nyc globally before running npm test to run the API tests
• Run npm i jest-cli -g to install Jest globally before running npm run test:client to run the frontend tests
• Run npm i nightwatch -g to install Nightwatch globally , npm run e2e-setup. Then run npm run e2e-server in one terminal window to start the selenium server before running npm run test:e2e in the app directory in another terminal window to run the end-to-end tests

Deployment

1. Setup a Node.js hosting account with any Node.js hosting platform of your choice.
2. Set up an online PostgreSQL database with any PostgreSQL platform of your choice.
3. Push the files to your hosting account and set up the enviroment variables in the .env file. See sample file.

Contributing

Fork it!

• Create your feature branch: git checkout -b awesome-feature
• Commit your changes: git commit -m 'Add my awesome feature'
• Push your branch online: git push origin awesome-feature
• Submit a pull request to development branch 😄

FAQ

FInd the frequently asked questions about PostIT here.

Author

• Chuks Opia

Acknowledgement

• Andela Talent Accelerator Team

License

• This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.