ZipItOnline.com

About

The ZipItOnline.com project is a group university project for the COSC2650 subject. A collaborative project between:

• Connor Logan
• David Martin
• Matt Kellock
• Matt Papa
• Tom Lambert
• Vish Inthirakumaran

The project is a matching app, designed to display user generated advertising, searchable on a range of fields.

The production app can be found at https://zipitonline.com

Local Operation

To run this project, you will need the following prerequisites:

• Node.js
• .Net 6.0 SDK
• MySQL
• Install the ef core tool by running the command dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef --version 5.0.12

After cloning this repository, do the following to configure your environment:

1. In your MySQL instance, create a database
2. On line 24 of API/API/Startup.cs add your MySQL connection string with schema edit capabilities
3. On line 4 of UI\zip-it\src\data\client.tsx, to use the local development API, change the URL to http://localhost:5000/graphql
4. In a terminal, navigate to API/API/
5. Run dotnet ef database update to populate the database schema
6. To populate the dev data, run the db_populate.sql file against your database
7. Run dotnet run to start the API server
8. Go to http://localhost:5000/graphql to check the API server is up
9. In a new terminal window, navigate to UI/zip-it/
10. Run npm install to install all required NPM dependencies
11. Run npm start to start the web server
12. Log in to the site with the credentials, username not@real.com, password password

Prodution Architecture

Below is a diagram of the application architecture and build pipeline