UoG Group project for Enterprise web software development

Idea collection system for a university

Any documentation related to the system will be found in the current folder. The system itself will be found in the "Idea_collection_system" folder.

How to run this project locally

Prerequisites:

1

You need to have node v16.18.1 and npm v8.10.0 installed on your system before you proceed.

2

Make sure to install and setup MySQL > v8.0 on your system.

3

Make sure you have the .env file with all the necessary environment variables.

Steps

step 1:

Clone this repository using the following commands

Linux and macOS:

sudo git clone https://github.com/fish-afk/Uog_COMP1640_Group1_EWSD_Assignment_2023_24.git

Windows:

git clone https://github.com/fish-afk/Uog_COMP1640_Group1_EWSD_Assignment_2023_24.git

step 2:

Go to the "Idea_collection_system" folder and copy all the code found in the "database.sql" file and run it in your mysql database.

step 3:

open a terminal / windows cmd prompt inside the "Idea_collection_system" folder. Make sure its inside that folder.

step 4:

run this command to install node packages.

npm install

step 5:

run this command to start up the server

node index.js

step 6:

go to browser on http://localhost:4455 and you're done.