angeloo01/autoinsurancewebapp

AutoInsuranceWebApp

Welcome to our readme for the CPSC471 final project code directory. We are group 7: Mohamed Yassin, Angelo Gonzales, Adam Hiles.

We have 3 directories: API,DataGen,Dummy Website, WebInterface. Download the zip file and extract it.

To run the API:

1. Install node.js
2. Navigate to the API directory, and do "npm install" in the terminal. This should install the express and mysql versions listed in package.json
3. First load the sql script in API/autoinsurance.sql locally into your system. An easy way is to use MySQL workbench and just execute the script there. Then run the API with "node index.js"
4. If you want to run the API so that your saved changes update immediately without re-typing node index.js, do "npm install -g nodemon", this will install nodemon globally, and you can run your app with "nodemon index.js" Instead.
5. Change the user and password in index.js to your own mysql username and password. You will need to go to file->open SQL script and open the autoinsurance.sql file in MySQL workbench to actually use it. If that doesn't work, run this command in workbench: "ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password';" and replace the password value in index.js with the "password". Basically, make sure you load our SQL script in API/autoinsurance.sql into your local system so you can use the API.

To run the web interface (the website used to access the api):

1. First make sure the API is running on localhost.
2. Navigate to the WebInterface directory, and run the "npm install" command in the terminal. This should install all the dependencies needed.
3. Run the interface with "node server.js".
4. Open localhost:8080 on Chrome and start exploring the web app.
5. To clarify, you need two terminals to do this.

To Generate lots of Data for the MySQL database so you can test it. Read the readme in DataGen.