Swapaway

Our experience at Makers

- Web development

- SOLID / XP values

Red Paperclip

[inspirational story]

Our goals

- We wanted to learn something new

- Using a stack completely unfamiliar to us

- Document each step of the way

M E R N stack

- Powerful web apps

- Similar to Ruby on Rails

- Pure JavaScript

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Popular NoSQL database for persistent data storage

Helper library which runs on Node runtime

Open-source JavaScript library for creating views rendered in HTML

JavaScript runtime used to execute code outside of a browser.

Testing

Front end

Back end

Jest

Chai and Mocha

Our process

- Process oriented

- Test-based (mostly)

- Full documentation

An item swapping platform

- User convenience

- Security

- Encourages trading

Challenges

- New frameworks

- Back-end trading functionality

- No 'Express scaffolding'

- Reiterations

cool demo vid

What we've learned

- Teamwork

- TT skills

- MERRNNNNN

Conclusion

- To get started with MERN..

Thanks for listening

- Charles, Tom, Umair, Varun

www.github.com/mnargh/swapaway