tonykurya / customer_referral

A customer referral site with an endearingly recursive structure

Customer Referral Site Source Code

A customer referral site that utilizes Dynamically-generated URLS for referrals

Features:

• Display of referrals that your referrals created
• Generates a unique 'referral' url for each user
• User authentification and 'points' accounting with a NoSQL database

Deployed Site

Check out this project at: https://secret-atoll-15400.herokuapp.com

Key Technologies Used and Technical Challenges

Key Technologies used:

• unique URL creation
• Heroku
• NoSQL Databases
• ExpressJS

Challenges:

• Display of Users referred (i.e. create the 'nesting' of users referred by user's referrals see picture 2) -> utilized a 'deep populate' function from Mongoose (similar to a SQL join) and a recursive function to determine the 'depth'/'nesting' of users

Demo

Deployment

Prerequisites

What things you need to install the software and how to install them

• node
• npm
• mongodb

How to deploy this on your local machine

git clone <project-folder-on-github>
cd <cloned-project-folder-on-your-local-machine>
npm install
nodemon app.js

Authors

• Steven Li - Initial work -