Our project brief was to build an app that would enhance the School of Code mentoring experience and the solution that the team of 4 people I was part of, managed to come up with in less than a week, was this tool that allows School of Code bootcampers to track and document their mentor/mentee relantionship.This is basically an online diary of the School of Code bootcamper mentorship journey.
The application consist of a Home page:
Weekly Form where mentee can go through a predefine set of questions together with their mentor.The questions are set with placeholder text to help guide the discussion.
The data is unique to user and can be viewed on the Achievement History page by selecting the prefered week to review.
We also added in a Contact page with School of Code contacts.
The Authentication was done using Firebase .
If you want to see the frontend code of this application head to this repository.
Here is the deployed version.
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Clone the repo:
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Download the required npm modules:
npm i
Setting up a database on Heroku :
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Go to heroku and sign up for a free account.
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Create a new app, give it a name and select the region.
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Navigate to the resources tab of your new app.
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In the Add-ons search bar, type postgres and select Heroku Postgres.
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Select the
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Click the link to
Heroku Postgres, this will open a new tab and under the Settings tab you will be able to view your credentials.
To connect the server with your Heroku database you'll need to locate your credentials in the settings tab and set the appropriate environment variables.
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Copy the content of
.env.exampleinto a new file called.env.localat the root of this project, then add the missing environment variables:PGHOST,PGUSER,PGDATABASE,PGPASSWORDandPGPORT- Can be found in the Heroku Dashboard>Your App>Overview>Heroku Postgres>Settings under View Credentials
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the server in the development mode.
This script is creating the table in your new set up Heroku data base.
You can deploy this server to the cloud with Heroku (Documentation).
One way of deploying your local project to Heroku is with GitHub.
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Push your code to GitHub and make sure you granted access to your Heroku account as well to your Github account.You can check that in Account Settings under Applications tab in Third-party Services section.
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Then navigate back to your project and under the Deploy tab select as the Deployment method: Github.
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Select the GitHub account where your repository is and search the repo you want to connect with, then click Connect.
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Make sure to enable the Automatic deploys section if you want to re-deploy your code for every change you push up to GitHub.
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Select the relevant branch you want to deploy and click Deploy Branch.
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In the Activity tab you can check the deployment progress and when the app goes live.
Important: We still need to connect the server with the database and the way to do that is to specify our Environment Variables in the deployed application.
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Go to Settings tab and in the Config Vars section under the Reveal Config Vars menu you will be able to insert all your local Environment Variables.
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When you are using a Heroku Postgres database you are given a
DATABASE_URLthat now you can use to connect your express server to. This URL is a replacement of the current PG credentials that you have on your local environment variables file. -
Depending on the frameworks or programming languages that you use you need to configure the db accordingly 👉 Documentation
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After you updated the code accordingly save the code and push it up to GitHub. If you enabled Automatic deploys the app will be automatically re-deployed.
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If you go to Settings tab under Domains section you will be able to find the live url of your app.
 Freshta Ebrahim |
 Valentina Militaru |
 Carl McIntosh |
Jon Owens |