jayrkyd / baha-go

Baha-Go

A full-stack restaurant app that allow locals to make reviews on their experience!

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BAHA-GO

About the project

Have you ever had trouble finding good restaurants around you? Well BAHA-GO solves your issues. Join a trustworthy community that post restaurant reviews about their experience. No more second guessing where to eat. Know what places to avoid and what places are a must try!

Built with

• Express.js
• Node
• EJS
• Mongoose
• Passport
• JavaScript
• CSS
• Cloudinary

##Getting Started

Installation

In order to clone a local copy of this repository, please follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to the folder you would like to store the project
2. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/JayRKyd/Baha-Go.git

3. Switch into the directory that was just created

   cd baha-go

4. Install NPM packages

   npm install

5. Navigate to the config folder
6. Create a .env file there called .env
7. Enter your MongoURI string in .env with the key DB_STRING

   DB_STRING="<Replace everything in quotes with MongoDB Connection String>"

8. Create a session secret for express sessions called SESSION_SECRET

   SESSION_SECRET="<any string value>"

9. Connect to your cloudinary db with the following 3 environment variables CLOUD_NAME, API_KEY, API_SECRET

   CLOUD_NAME="<cloud name here>"
   API_KEY="<api key here>"
   API_SECRET="<api secret here>"

10. To run the application, use npm start to run the app in a development environment

Roadmap (still to be added in v3)

• Implement a Dollar Rating System
• Modernize feed page
• Revamp comment section
• Add Pagination for user posts
• Favorite Restaurants page

Lessons Learned

coming soon...

Contact

Twitter @jayrcodes

Project Link: https://github.com/JayRKyd/baha-go