Machuuni

A lot of time people suffer from mental health issues for a long time mostly because they don’t have anyone to share it with or they don’t feel anyone will understand. Basically, the idea of this app is to provide a space to let them know that they are not alone. So, Machhuni is a safe space to share personal experiences, advice, and tips relating to mental health.

Firebase integration:

The project uses firebase feature like cloud functions, hosting, etc. The hosting host the index.html file created using react (npm run build). The cloud functions basically runs a node app in it.

Things to remember:

• You need to have an google maps api key and set it under the environment variable map.api_key using the command firebase functions:config:set map.api_key="YOUR_API_KEY" .
• You also need the api to rebuild the react project. You can add the api key in a .env file under the name REACT_APP_API_KEY .i.e REACT_APP_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
• Before initializing firebase hosting make sure to build the react project. Then link the index.html file in the build folder when you are asked to genrate a public directory for hosting. Just give the path to the index.html file. It should work.
• Also, you need to use the right plan for the firebase project and enable payment for the api. For a demo it won't be much also sometime you might have free credits

P.S. Docs are present in docs folder. Just run the index.html .

To run locally:

Node server is used to run the backend to test locally. The setting for the app to run locally is in the branch `local-test`.

Steps:

• Create a google API key and enable map feature for the API. If you want, you can add resctrictions to enable API security.
• Create a .env file inside client and add REACT_APP_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
• Also create another .env file inside functions folder and add MAP_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY.
• Checkout to the local-test branch
• Run npm install
• Run cd functions
• Run npm run local, or npm run local-dev to enable watch
• On a seperate terminal window: run cd client from project root
• Run npm start

The app runs in `https://localhost:3000` by default. For map feature go to: `https://localhost:3000/map`.