mrrob0t404/blackstone-coding-challenge

Simple Meeting Booker Application

Here are quick and simple steps to get this projct up and running!

Step 1. seed database

• navigate your way to /backend/db/database.sql
• in you terminal, type 'psql' then \i path-to-database.sql file note: dont use the relative path to seed the database. Instead, use the fullpath to the sql file

Step 2. start the backend

• navigate over to /backend
• npm install all dependancies
• npm start to start the backend server

Step 3. start the frontend

• navigate over to /frontend
• npm install all dependancies
• npm start to start the frontend

Meeting Booker core functionalites

Mainly used as an admin tool, the admin would be able to do the following:

• Room management:

• View all meeting rooms
• Create a meeting room
• View room bookings

Booking management:

• View all bookings
• Book a meeting room
• Cancel booking
• Find available rooms

Known issues

• When cancelling a booking, the state of the booking ID is not saved
• How to reproduce: Click into a booking you want to cancel, click into the booking again and you will notice the URL ID parameter is now undefined this prevents the room from being canceled.