Deals Mate

Have you ever wanted to buy an item from Amazon, but it was too expensive? Well you can't change the price, but with Deals Mate, you can keep track of when the item goes on sale! Deals Mate is an easy to use website where you, the user, can input an Amazon link of a product that you want to track and get notifications of when it goes on sale!

Demo

Deals Mate Demo

Demo Account:

Email: arnold@gmail.com\ Password: asdfasdf

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React (Hooks)
• Material UI

Backend

• Python (Flask)
• MongoEngine
• MongoDB
• Amazon AWS S3

Setting Up the Database

The database used for this web app is MongoDB. A simple way to get started with MongoDB is to use MongoDB Atlas. A quick guide can be found here: https://docs.atlas.mongodb.com/getting-started/

Starting the Server

1. Open a terminal and go to the server folder. Make sure you have pipenv installed (pip install pipenv)
2. Install the dependencies with pipenv install. This also createa a virtual environment, if there isn't one already
3. In order to run db locally, make sure you go to the server/.env file and have the following key, value pairs in the .env file:

FLASK_ENV="development"
SECRET_KEY = "Make up a secret key."
MONGODB_HOST = "The MongoDB server URL given to you by MongoDB after you create a database."
JWT_SECRET_KEY = "Make up a JWT secret key"

4. Activate the virtual environment and start the app with pipenv run flask run

Setting up AWS S3

In order to upload images to your profile and/or images to the products list you are creating, you must create an AWS account and create a S3 bucket. This is a simple guide to creating an AWS S3 bucket https://medium.com/@rachid1982fsb/upload-images-on-a-react-app-to-aws-s3-bucket-3f3114a683f1

Starting the Client

1. Open a terminal and go the client folder.
2. Install the dependencies using npm install or yarn install.
3. In order to utilize Amazon's AWS S3 service for uploading images for your profile image and/or list image, make sure to go to the client/.env file and have the following key, value pairs in the .env file:

REACT_APP_BUCKET_NAME=Your bucket name
REACT_APP_REGION=Your chosen region
REACT_APP_ACCESS_ID=Your access ID
REACT_APP_ACCESS_KEY=Your access key

4. Start the App using npm start or yarn start.

Features

Sign Up and Sign In

• User can sign up and sign into their account which authenticates them to allow access to the website

Upload Profile Image

• User can upload a profile image of their choice through the user's setting

Creating Products Lists and Adding Products

• User can create lists where they populate with products they wish to have tracked

Follow and Unfollow Other Users

• User can follow/unfollow other users

Contibutors

Jason, Ziqi, Milan