Curbside – the secondhand market place that’s actually pleasant to use

Post items for sale, interact with sellers, save items you are interested in. All Curbside market profits get directed towards green initiatives.

Built With

Frontend

  • ? React + Typescript
  • ? Leaflet.js
  • ? SCSS and Bootstrap
  • ? Jest, Cypress, and Testing Library

Backend

  • ? Node.js + Express
  • ? PostgreSQL
  • ? Prisma
  • ? PostGIS Extension for Geo Queries
  • ? Socket.io
  • ? Firebase Authentication
  • ? Firebase Image Storage

Run it on your machine

Set up

  1. Create a Firebase app for authentication and image storage
  2. Create an empty PostgreSQL database as well as an empty test database (e.g. Curbside and Curbside_TEST)

Installation

  1. Fork and clone the repo
  2. Add the three .env files in client/ and server/ folders (see examples below)
  3. Install requirements with npm install from project root folder, /server and /client folders
  4. Generate Prisma artifacts and sync database schema with prisma client with npx prisma generate and npx prisma db push from /server folder.

Run

  1. Start the sever with npm start:server from project root folder;
  2. Start the app in the browser with npm start:client from project root folder;

Environmental Variables

  1. Create .env file in client/src folder:

# Firebase keys
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_API_KEY=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_APP_ID=
REACT_APP_FIREBASE_MEASUREMENT_ID=

# Server URL
REACT_APP_BASE_API_URL=
  1. Create a /config folder in /server folder
  2. Create dev.env file in server/config folder:

# Server port
PORT=

# Local DB
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://username:password@localhost:5432/dbname?schema=public"

# Firebase storage
FIREBASE_ADMIN_PRIVATE_KEY=
FIREBASE_ADMIN_CLIENT_EMAIL=
FIREBASE_ADMIN_PROJECT_ID=
  1. Set up environment for tests (Skip this if running tests is not a priority)
    • Set up two users through your Firebase console and paste their UIDs in SECRET_UID and SECRET_UID2.
    • This will be needed to send valid requests that pass serverside token verification.
    • Create test.env file in server/config folder:

# Server port (note, should be other than for dev server)
PORT=4444

# Local test DB
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://username:password@localhost:5432/dbname_TEST?schema=public"

# Real users used for testing purposes
SECRET_UID=
SECRET_UID2=
FIREBASE_API_KEY=

# Firebase storage (same as dev)
FIREBASE_ADMIN_PRIVATE_KEY=
FIREBASE_ADMIN_CLIENT_EMAIL=
FIREBASE_ADMIN_PROJECT_ID=

GitHub

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