About

This is a parent-facing portal used to register students for an online computer science camp.

The site is deployed to https://actoninstituteofcs.netlify.app/.

For detailed instructions on usage, here is a parent-facing tutorial.

Contributors

• Andrew Chen - Technical Lead
• Nipun Kisari
• Jeffrey Li
• Ben Wang
• Julia Zhou
• Gloria Zhu

Tech Stack

This app is implemented as a separate frontend and backend app.

Frontend

The frontend is implemented using TypeScript with a React.js/Next.js stack.

Backend

The backend is written in Express.js/TypeScript, leveraging a noSQL Firebase database.

Deployment

The frontend server is deployed using Netlify, with the backend API endpoints being built and deployed together with the frontend server, and exposed as Netlify serverless functions.

Set Up .env file

We currently use the .env file to store private keys that we don't want to publish to the repository. Take a look at .env.example for the pieces of information you need to fill in, then create a file called .env, with the information filled in (ask Andrew for this info).

Start the frontend and backend servers locally

1. Install dependencies (only have to do in the beginning and if the dependencies ever change, i.e. we add a new package):

npm install

2. To start the development servers:

You'll need two terminal/command line windows, one to start the frontend server on and one to start the backend server on.

Frontend:

cd frontend
npm run dev

In a separate window, start the backend server.

Backend:

cd backend
npm run dev