CovenCraft 🌙🔮

Where magick meets creativity!

Welcome to CovenCraft, the enchanting social platform where magick and creativity intertwine! Our platform is designed for witches to come together and explore a magical realm of artistic spells through captivating workshops.

This application combines a React frontend with a Flask-SQLAlchemy backend to allow visitors to view a list of Crafts for those interested in adding a little magick to their life. Sign up or log in to save Crafts to your profile.

Home

• Starting the Application
• Using the Application
• Attributions

Intro To Project

• This project was made to complete the assignment Phase 4 Project for the SE-West-091123 class for the Flatiron Software Engineering Boot Camp.
• The project was completed using the following: Flask-SQLAlchemy, React, React Router, Formik, Yup, and Bcrypt.

Starting the Application

• Fork and clone this repo, and open in your favorite code editor.
• In one terminal window:
  • Run pipenv install && pipenv shell to install packages and enter virtual environment.
  • Run touch .env in the main directory and open the new file.
  • In the .env file, insert FLASK_RUN_PORT = 5555, APP_SECRET =
  • Enter the Flask shell using flask shell, then run import secrets, then `secrets.token_hex(32). Copy the output code.
  • Paste the code after APP_SECRET = <paste here> and exit the shell with Ctrl-D.
  • Enter the server directory using cd server.
  • Run flask db init, flask db migrate -m "inital migration", and flask db upgrade to create the database.
  • Run python seed.py. It may take a moment to seed the database!
  • Run python app.py to start the server.
• In a second terminal window:
  • Enter the client directory using cd client, and run npm i && npm start to install necessary packages and start the program.

Using the Application

• Explore the home page to view all crafts! Hover over the image to view a short summary.
• Click the Learn more button to view all the details of one craft.
• If you'd like to save crafts, log in or create a free account!
• Crafts can be saved to your profile. If you've changed your mind about a craft, go to it's page and remove it.

Attributions

• The project was completed with collaboration from: Kat Tannehill, Reilly Wentz, and Jazlin Yu
• This project was created with combination of skills learned from the Flatiron curriculum and our own individual research.
• Many of the photos used for the purposes of this project were supplied by Unsplash.

Join Us in Crafting Magick

Whether you're a novice or an experienced witch, CovenCraft welcomes you to join our mystical community. Unleash your creativity, connect with other witches, and make your craft truly magical.

May your spells be ever enchanting! 🌙🔮

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