Food Donation Management System

A web application which is useful for management of food donation and collection activities.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Technologies used
• npm packages used
• Prerequisites
• Installation and setup
• Useful Links

Features

• The system consists of three types of users: admins, donors and agents.
• Admins: They control all the activities and accept/reject donations and select agents.
• Donors: They are the driving users of the application who donate food.
• Agents: They are responsible for collecting food from homes of food donors.
• Each user should have an account.
• Every user also have a dashboard where they can view several things in short summary.
• The application provides signup, login and logout functionalities.

Donor Features

• Donors make the donation request for food with basic details.
• Donors' donation requests can be accepted or rejected and the status can be easily tracked by them.
• Donors can view their current incomplete donations (if any).
• Donors can also view all their past donations.
• Donors can update their profile.

Admin Features

• Admins receive all the requests made by donors.
• Admins can accept or reject the donation requests depending upon the details provided by a donor.
• If accepted, admins can assign an agent to a donation for collecting donation from the donor's home.
• Admins can view all the pending donations along with status.
• Admins can view all the donations that they have received.
• Admins can also view all the agents in the application.
• Admins can update their profile.

Agent Features

• Agents will receive notifications from admins to collect food from donor's homes.
• Agents can mark their collection upon collection of food from donor's home.
• Agents can also view all those food donations which have been collected by them previously.
• Agents can update their profile.

Technologies used

• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Express.js
• Mongodb
• ejs

npm packages used

• express
• ejs
• express-ejs-layouts
• mongoose
• express-session
• bcryptjs
• passport
• passport-local
• connect-flash
• method-override
• dotenv

Prerequisites

For running the application:

• Node.js must be installed on the system.
• You should have a MongoDB database.
• You should have a code editor (preferred: VS Code)

Installation and Setup

0. Remove the cached package-lock.json file and node-modules/ folder

rm -rf node-modules/
rm -f package-lock.json 

1. Install all the dependencies

   npm install

2. Create a file named ".env" and enter the following credentials:

   MONGO_URI = yourmongouri;

3. Run the web application

   npm start

4. Open http://localhost:5000
5. You need to first signup and then login to run the application.

Useful Links

• Demo: https://food-aid-aayush.herokuapp.com/
• Github Repo: https://github.com/aayush301/Food-donation-management-system
• Nodejs download: https://nodejs.org/
• VS Code download: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Tutorials: https://www.w3schools.com/
• npmjs docs: https://docs.npmjs.com/
• Expressjs docs: https://expressjs.com/
• Bootstrap docs: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/getting-started/introduction/
• Mongoosejs docs: https://mongoosejs.com/docs/index.html
• Mongodb atlas: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register
• Mongodb docs: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/introduction/
• Nodemailer docs: https://nodemailer.com/
• Github docs: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/hello-world
• Git cheatsheet: https://education.github.com/git-cheat-sheet-education.pdf
• VS Code keyboard shortcuts: https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf