Video Game Review

Description

This is a video game review website deployed to heroku. It is a full stack application that uses a MySQL database, Node, Express, Supertest, and Handlebars. It follows the MVC design pattern; using Node and MySQL to query and route data in the app, and Handlebars to generate the HTML.

Table of Contents

• Description
• Installation
• Usage
• Website
• Screenshot
• Testing
• License
• Contributing
• Questions
• Credits
• Collaborators GitHub Profiles

Installation

1. Clone the repo:

git clone git@github.com:lesley-byte/videogame-review.git

2. Install NPM packages:

npm install 

3. Create a .env file in the root directory and add the following:

DB_NAME='game_db'
DB_USER='yourMySQLusername'
DB_PASSWORD='yourMySQLpassword'
DB_SECRET='yourSecretCookiePassphrase'

4. Run the following command in the terminal to seed the database:

 npm run seed

5. Run the following command in the terminal to start the application server:

 npm start

6. Open your browser and navigate to:

http://localhost:3001

Usage

You can login to the database, the database will capture your name and read and look up video game reviews. You can add platforms and games. The user can submit to the homepage and see their reviews appear on the homepage.

Website

Link to the website

Presentation

Link to presenation

Screenshot

Testing

Enter one of the following commands in to the terminal after the server is started:

 npm run test

or

node server.js. 

License

MIT License

Contributing

We are not currently looking for contributors. If you would like to contribute, please contact us. See our section on Questions for contact information.

Questions

If you have any questions about the repo, open an issue or contact us directly at:

Credits

We would like to thank the following people for their help:

• Instructor - Kevin Ferguson
• TA's Ringo, Reese and Juan
• Tutors
• Classmates

Collaborators GitHub Profiles:

You can find more of our work at the following links:

• Phadeline
• Joey
• Ryan
• Lesley