Gamers for Gamers: CS35L Project

Gamers For Gamers (GFG) is a community driven video game modding content sharing website. You can browse, search, favorite, comment, and view the mod contents created by the gaming community. Meanwhile, you can also be a creator to share your wonderful contents to the community.

Presentation Slides

Demo Video

Build

• Install Node if you have not

brew install node

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/TraderBros-UCLA/ucla-22f-35l-project.git

• Go to your cloned directory, then install node packages

cd frontend ; npm install ; cd ..
cd backend; npm install ; cd ..

Install MongoDB Database

MacOS

• Install MongoDB Community 6.0: Official Guide
• For easy installation, we recommend Homebrew

brew tap mongodb/brew
brew update
brew install mongodb-community@6.0

Windows

• Install MongoDB Community 6.0 for Windows: Official Guide
• Follow the procedure in the official guide to install it on your specific machine.

Linux

• Install MongoDB Community 6.0 for Linux: Official Guide
• Follow the procedure in the official guide to install it on your specific machine.

Start Database

MacOS

# To start database:
brew services start mongodb-community@6.0
# To shutdown database:
brew services stop mongodb-community@6.0

Windows

Click the .exe executable of mongodb. For details, check installation guide above.

Linux

For details, check installation guide above.

Load Sample Database

Our application is at its core a content driven website. To view its full functions in limited time, we have provided some sample data for you to load as default content.

To load them, run the script load-sample-data.sh in your shell and it should automatically fill the database (make sure you started it already) with sample data.

Run Server

Start up server instance on http://localhost:3030

node backend

Run Client

Start up client instance on http://localhost:3000

cd frontend
npm start