kayroy247 / ivy-ah-frontend

Authors Haven - A Social platform for the creative at heart.

Vision

Create a community of like minded authors to foster inspiration and innovation by leveraging the modern web.

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Author's Haven API on heroku

Author's Haven API

How To Install and Run This Application on your Computer

1. Download and install GIT, NodeJs and Postgresql on your computer
2. Create a database with the name authorshaven (This will be part of DATABASE_URL in the .env file).
3. Clone this repository by running the following on your command line interface git clone https://github.com/andela/ivy-ah-frontend.git
4. Navigate to the directory where the app was cloned to with cd ivy-ah-frontend
5. Run npm install to install all dependencies
6. Rename the .env-example file to .env and set all the environment variables
7. Finally Run npm run dev to start the server. You now have a running copy of Author's Haven application ✨

Note

All React components use the .js extension

User Features

Users can:

• signup
• Login
• Create articles
• Give rating to articles
• Like articles
• Reset password
• Highlight and comment on any text in the article
• Like a specific comment
• Report an article with inappropriate content
• Share articles
• See time it takes to read an article
• Tag their articles
• See a list and profiles of existing authors
• Bookmark articles
• See their reading stats
• Signup and login via Google, Facebook, and Twitter

Authors

This app was created by the ivy team