Club-Website

This website will have information for all things related to the Purdue University Northwest Computer Science Club.

Content

• Project information for:
  • This website
  • Gatekeeper Project
  • Duckietown Project
• Helpful resources for students
• Blogs posts for events / Highlights
• Event information for:
  • Coding Contests
  • Hackathons

Features

• Blog editor
• Event editor
• User login

Tech Stack

These are the tools we will be using to build our website:

• React JavaScript - Frontend Development - https://react.dev/learn
• SpringBoot - Backend Development - https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/documentation.html
• Amazon Web Services, EC2(Compute), RDS(Database), Route53(DNS) - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/
• PostgreSQL - https://www.postgresql.org/
• GitHub
• GitHub Projects - https://github.com/orgs/PNW-CS-Club/projects/4
• Selenium - Functionality Testing - https://www.selenium.dev/

Getting Started - Developers

• You must have Node.js and npm installed on your machine to run this project.
  • If you do not have Node.js already: Install Node.js and npm using here: https://nodejs.org/en/download/prebuilt-installer
• Set up repository
  • Either using git clone https://github.com/PNW-CS-Club/Club-Website.git in a CLI or using software like GitHub Desktop
• Open the git repo in your code editor of choice
• Using the CLI/Terminal, do cd pnwcsclub-front to navigate to the project folder
• Run npm install to install all the dependencies
• Inside of C:\...\pnwcsclub-front run npm run dev to start the development server
• Open your browser and navigate to the given localhost to see the website

Backend

• The backend is written in Java using the SpringBoot framework
  • You will need to have Java 21+ and Maven installed on your machine
  • This is a good resource if you need help installing Maven(Windows): https://phoenixnap.com/kb/install-maven-windows
• The backend is located in the pnwcsclub-backend folder
• To run the backend, navigate to the pnwcsclub-backend folder in your CLI
• Run mvn spring-boot:run to start the backend server
• The backend server will be running on localhost:8080
  • If you want to test specific functions, you can do localhost:8080/api/{function}
• You will want to have the frontend running as well to see the full website

If you have any questions, please reach out to Julian(@Bluju) or Peter(@peter-biz)