Sextant

This project is intended to serve as a collection of useful links, docs, specs, cheat sheets, etc for students participating in a Lighthouse Labs program.

We chose to emulate the design of Lighthouse Labs' learning platform, Compass, with the aim of being a proof-of-concept that Compass could eventually incorporate.

Contributors

Sextant was developed by Adam Lovatt, Bryan Kenny, and Cam Gehmlich.

Usage

The Easy Way

https://sextant-lhl.herokuapp.com/

The Hard Way

• Install PostgreSQL. I won't even try to offer instructions on how to do that.

• In psql:

  • CREATE DATABASE sextant;
  • CREATE USER sextant;
  • \password sextant
    • Use the password sextant. Really creative, I know.
  • ALTER USER sextant WITH SUPERUSER;

• Clone this repository

• npm install

• npm run knex migrate:latest

• npm run knex seed:run

  You may get a database error at this point which we were unable to diagnose in the time available. If so, running the seed command a second time seems to consistently do the trick.

• Create a file called .env in the project's root directory. Put the following in it:

  DB_HOST=localhost
  DB_USER=sextant
  DB_PASS=sextant
  DB_NAME=sextant
  

• npm start

• Direct your browser to http://localhost:8080

Signing In

The app allows you to register a new user name, but you can just log in as "Adam", "Bryan", or "Cam". We won't mind.

Dependencies

• PostgreSQL (not provided when installing the project)
• EJS
• Express
• Knex
• PG
• Moment.js

Development Dependencies

• Knex Logger
• Morgan
• Nodemon
• Dotenv

Assets

We borrowed liberally from Lighthouse Labs' stylesheets and markup, obviously. Cheers to the Compass development team.