README.md

AltCart

AltCart is a chrome extension that provides articles on recent company malpractice, a corporate social responsibility rating based on the company’s environmental impact, community impact, labor rights, and governance, and product and shopping alternatives based on items put in their cart.

Getting Started

• Fork and clone this repo

npm install

• Start webpack process

npm run dev

• Open another terminal to start the server process

npm run server

• In new terminal create a database

createdb capstone

• Seed the database

npm run seed

Technologies

1. React - JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
2. Redux - JavaScript library for managing application state.
3. Sequelize - a promise-based ORM for Node.js.
4. Cheerio - used for web scraping from web pages using node.js.
5. Express - a routing and middleware web framework.
6. Google Search API - user for searching alternative products.
7. News API - impelemented for getting news headlines and searching for articles.

Authors

Beth Howell

• Github:(https://github.com/beahowel117)
• LinkedIn:(https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-a-howell/)

Stacey Eliuk

• Github:(https://github.com/hotpinkpoliticalmatrix)
• LinkedIn:(https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceyeliuk/)

Yumiko Mannarelli

• Github:(https://github.com/yumiko2695)
• LinkedIn:(https://www.linkedin.com/in/yumikomannarelli/)

Aleksandra Bardymova

• Github:(https://github.com/AleksandraBard)
• LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksandra-bardymova/)