ec7495 / reactomg

REACTOmg

Overview

REACTOmg is Fullstack Academy's web platform for students to conduct REACTO-style technical interviews remotely. Students may enter private pair programming rooms, where they may answer questions via code editor and/or whiteboard. Both interfaces allow for real-time collaboration between the interviewer and interviewee.

MVP

A user should be able to enter a room with a pair partner, where they can collaboratively write or execute JavaScript code or whiteboard. Multiple pair rooms should be able to run simultaneously.

Stretch Features

• Rooms specific REACTO problems, with test specs. (CMS features for adding/updating problems or specs)
• LMS integration with pairs
• Exportable solutions
• Recorded interviews

Additional Software Requirements

• Download and install PostgreSQL
• Download and install Docker

Database and Secrets Setup

• Create two postgres databases (MY_APP_NAME should match the name parameter in package.json):

export MY_APP_NAME=boilermaker
createdb $MY_APP_NAME
createdb $MY_APP_NAME-test

• By default, running npm test will use MY_APP_NAME-test, while regular development uses MY_APP_NAME

• Create a file called secrets.js in the project root

  • This file is listed in .gitignore, and will only be required in your development environment
  • Its purpose is to attach the secret environment variables that you will use while developing
  • However, it's very important that you not push it to Github!
  • It might look like this:

process.env.GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID = 'hush hush'
process.env.GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET = 'pretty secret'
process.env.GOOGLE_CALLBACK = '/auth/google/callback'

Local Host Setup

Ensure that PostgreSQL and Docker are running prior to starting the server locally.

• npm install
• To seed the database, open another terminal window and npm run seed
• To run the application locally, npm run start-dev and navigate to http://localhost:8080/
• To run test specifications, npm test

Deployment

• Deployed Version