README.md

Developer: Li Fengyu

Designer: Liu Yueming

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Instructions for Updates and Maintenance (Collaborator Only)

1. Make sure you have Node.js installed in your environment.

2. Run the following commands in the project's root directory:

   // Install react, mongoose, antd, and other necessary packages.
   npm i
   // Install webpack and babel to compile your JSX code.
   npm i -D
   

3. Make changes.

4. To effectuate all changes, run npm test.

5. Alternatively, to effectuate only changes associated with React.js, run npm run build, which triggers the webpack bundling. To initiate the Express.js server, run npm run start. See scripts in package.json for more.

6. The default http localhost port is 3000. The server automatically switches to process.env.PORT when deployed.

7. Submit a commit, then push.

8. Ideally, any push to this Github repository results in an automatic deployment on Heroku. Alternatively, try the following.

9. Make sure you have Heroku CLI installed.

10. Run git push heroku HEAD:master to deploy the main branch. If asked for username and password, contact site administrator.

11. Visit MongoDB Atlas service for incoming messages. Login using the credentials provided by the site administrator.