Hackathon Starter Kit is a boilerplate for creating hackathon websites. It comes with everything you need out of the box so you can focus on creating a beautiful hackathon website.

Included:

• Authentication / Authorization

• Registration / Applications

  • Google Cloud Storage for uploading resumes

• Announcements

  • Can sync with slack channel

• Checkin System

  • Supports scanning QR Codes

• Service Worker

  • Push Notifications / Offline Caching

• Email Service

  • Uses SendGrid
  • Send emails on requests with 500 HTTP codes

• Fully Tested

  • Integration / End-to-End

• NOTE: We deliberately chose not to add any styling to allow you to focus mainly on design and user experience rather than implementing features

• NodeJS
• MongoDB
• Yarn
• Homebrew *Only on Mac
• Docker
• Docker Compose

• Prerequisites:
  1. yarn web-push generate-vapid-keys
     • Copy the values to "VAPID_PUBLIC" and "VAPID_PRIVATE" in your .env
  2. Edit your .env file in root of the project
     • See backend/config/env-config.js for list of ENVs to modify
• To start: docker-compose up
  • Open http://localhost:5000 to view the app
  • Open http://localhost:8081 to view mongo-express
• To stop: 1. Ctrl+C when inside docker-compose up * OR 2. docker-compose down
• To build: docker-compose build

• NOTE: All of these commands are available as runnable tasks within VSCode

1. yarn
2. yarn web-push generate-vapid-keys
   • Copy the values to "VAPID_PUBLIC" and "VAPID_PRIVATE" in your .env
3. Edit your .env file in root of the project
   • See backend/config/env-config.js for list of ENVs to modify
4. Make sure MongoDB is running:
   • mongod
5. yarn dev
6. Open http://localhost:5000

• NextJS
• ReactJS
• ReduxJS

• TypeScript
• Mongoose
• ExpressJS
• Routing Controllers