Repository for software engineering project RUEats.

Initial Instructions:

Clone the Repository

• Open a terminal
• Navigate to the directory where you want to clone the repository.
• Run the following command:

git clone <repository_url>

• Replace <repository_url> with the URL of your Git repository. This will create a new directory with the same name as the repository and download the code into that directory.

Navigate into the Repository

• Run the following command:

cd <repository_name>

• Replace <repository_name> with the name of your repository.

Pull the Latest Changes

• Before you start working on a new feature, make sure you have the latest changes from the remote repository. Run:

git pull origin main

Setting up the Application locally for running and testing.

Prerequisites

Install Node.js and npm.

• Download and install Node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/download
• Downlaod and install npm following the documentation https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm

Update environment variable

Update all the environment variables provided in the application documentation:

DB_HOST=your_database_host
DB_USER=your_database_user
DB_PASSWORD=your_database_password
DB_NAME=your_database_name
GOOGLE_API_KEY=your_google_cloud_api_key
PAYMENT_SECRET_KEY = payment_key
EMAIL_USER=official_email
EMAIL_PASS=official_email_passkey

Installation Steps

Open a terminal in the project directory.

Run:

• npm install After all dependencies are installed run:
• npm run devStart or node app.js

RUEats should be up and running on the localhost 3000 port. Home page url: http://localhost:3000/home

Developer Instructions

Create a New Branch for every new Feature

• git checkout -b <branch_name>

• Branch name pattern feature-<featureName>

• Replace <branch_name> with the name of your new branch.

Make Changes

• You can now start making changes for your new feature. Commit Your Changes

• Once you’ve made some changes, stage them for commit by running:

git add .

P.S do not include package-lock.json

• Then, commit your changes by running:

git commit -m "<commit_message>"

Replace <commit_message> with a brief description of your changes.

Push Your Changes

• Finally, push your changes to the remote repository by running:

git push origin <branch_name>

Open a Pull Request

Go to your repository on GitHub.

• Click on ‘Pull requests’.

• Click on ‘New pull request’.

• Select your branch from the ‘compare’ dropdown.

• Review your changes and click on ‘Create pull request’.

Atleast 1 reviewers approval required to merge PR.

Creating Database queries.

• Your Database queries can be placed inside RUEatsRepository.js
• Each new query/ operation can be a new method inside class RUEatsRepository eg. function getRestaurant(id) which can take necessary arguments, run queries with that input and return output.