She Code Africa

This is the official website repository for She Code Africa. Guidelines for development and to contribute can be found in GUIDELINES.md. Ensure to read this first if you will be contributing

Prerequisites

• Git
• Node
• NPM
• MongoDB

Setting up your development environment

This project is based on the KeystoneJS framework here

• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/she-code-africa/SCA-Website.git

• To install dependencies from package.json, run:

npm install

If you run into problems while running npm install, try npm audit fix then run npm install again

• Create a .env file (it's in .gitignore so you will need to create a local copy yourself) in the project's root folder to contain the needed configuartions, In the .env file, put in the following details

COOKIE_SECRET=generate-any-random-string-and-put-it-here
CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary://333779167276662:_8jbSi93sWYrfimcl8VKh34rI@keystone-demo

You can replace CLOUDINARY_URL with your cloudinary_url. Actual congifuration details will be included before moving to productiona

• If you are yet to install MongoDB, install and set it up on your device (see installation guide here ). After successful installation, start the MongoDB service

• Then you can proceed to running the application. To start the local server, run:

npm start

or

node keystone

• Visit http://localhost:3000/ to access the server

• To log in as an admin, visit - http://localhost:3000/keystone/signin and log in with the details: adminuser @ shecodeafrica.com, anadmin. You can create a new user after successful log in.