deanwookey / socialbusinessstarter

A KickStarter clone built with Rails and React/Redux

Summary

Social Business Starter is a Kickstarter Clone created by Lucian Stroie. It features social businesses listed as projects each with multiple pledge levels that users can choose to back. You can register as a new user and upload a profile picture or you can use the guest log-in button. Create a new project by adding a picture and creating different pledge levels. Contribute to existing projects and see it all update instantly.

Live Here

Structure

Front end

Social Business Starter is a single page app, and the front end is built with React and Redux.

Back end

Social Business Starter was built using Ruby on Rails with a postgreSQL database. All database queries are made using AJAX, and all responses are JSON objects constructed with jbuilder.

Features

• Authentication
  • Custom backend authentication. All queries return data that corresponds to the proper user.
  • User can log in from any page in the app. Clicking a pledge level toggles either editing or creates a contribution depending on if the user signed in is the owner of the project or not.
• Create and edit projects with multiple pledge levels.
• Contribute to one of multiple pledge levels with a confirmation button that is rendered on the same page.

Technologies Used

• React.js
• Redux
• Ruby on Rails
• jBuilder
• PostgreSQL
• Heroku
• BCrypt for authorization
• Paperclip to store the images users may add to any suggestion, using Amazon Web Services
• Figaro to store AWS keys