merlz6 / lights-camera-drive

Rent a car for film production, using angularJS, nodeJS, expressJS, MONGODB

Project 3 - Light Camera Drive

Team Members

• Rick / Michael / Anitha

SYNOPSIS: An app that helps film producers find specific types of cars for movie shooting. The website is built using the MEAN stack: Mongoose, Express, Angularjs, and Node.js.

Live Site: https://lights-camera-drive.herokuapp.com/

Git repo link: https://github.com/nibblet787/lights-camera-drive

Site structure

• Splash page/ Landing page with a banner.
• Cars Listing page:
  • Displays all car listings.
  • Each entry has a make, model, year, color, image, contact email, notes and availability.
    • Though, a non-account holder's view is restricted to a car's image, make, model and model year.

Technical details:

• Main Mongo dB : lights-camera-drive
• Two separate collections:
  • "cars" for storing all the listings
  • "users" for storing the user login information
• CSS framework - Skeleton
• Technology - Angularjs, Node, Mongoose, Express, Html and CSS

CRUD features:

• An index page that displays the navigation partial and body div where each partial loads.
• View Partial - displays all car listings
• Create Partial - user creation/signup form
• Login Partial - user can login to their account
• Add Partial - logged-in user can add a new car listing
• Edit Button - logged-in user can edit an existing listing.
• Delete Button - logged-in user can delete a listing
• DEVELOPMENT TOOL: Seed Button - used to seed the listing from a seed model file

Authorization

• Included sign up/log in functionality for user, with encrypted passwords using bcrypt & an authorization flow

Project Management

• Tracked via git issues and waffle.io

Technical challenges:

• Merging each team members work to the dev branch in git without causing major conflicts.
• Heroku kept crashing as soon as a wrong login credential was entered.
• Seed button would add listings but would not automatically refresh view page.

Future enhancements

• Add search, sort, and filter functionality.
• Functionality to see availability of a car during weekends/weekdays.
• Add review/likes for a particular car owner.
• Add second login for film producers. This user can only see contact information of a car listing but cannot add/delete or edit.
• Once a user selects a listing, they are able to send an email directly to the car owner from the website.

Key Learning:

• Being able to use secret keyword in .env as well as on the Heroku config page
• Using partials to be able to give a multipage website feel.