- Clone the project
- Open the project is VS code (or your favorite editor)
- Add your ip address in stories_repo file line 8 (Flutter)
- Create a google cloud account and enable google maps
- Add the google maps api in android manifest
- Make a firebase account and generate the service json file
- Replace key in firestore/key.json file with your json file (Node.js)
- Run npm install for node.js
- run flutter pub get for Flutter
- Locate the VS Code status bar (the blue bar at the bottom of the window):
- Select a device from the Device Selector area
- Invoke Run > Start Debugging or press f5
- Wait for the app to launch β progress is printed in the Debug Console view.
- Fontend : Frontend is setup using flutter and programmed in a way that it can be ran on desktop , web and android/ios !
- Node.js : All the calls to database go through node.js server where the user and data is validated before forwarding it to the database.
- Database : We are using Firestore as a database
- Email verify all users before they can submit any information for approval
- Add Firebase cloud messaging (Push notification) so that users get notified whenever their information is approved
- Add award system so that users get an incentive for using the app
- Feature to post pdf of research papers, any interviews they did or any images as information
- Use All markers as a community feature where others can comment on an information submitted by a user and make a thread and so on
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