"GitHub for houses"

Homefront is a data aggregator for housing information for houses, apartments, and even dorms. The goal was to provide a nice web-based frontend for a service that allows for past residents to enter information about their experience with a living space they rented out in the past and for potential occupants to get a good idea of how safe the house is (along with other details) based on a "safety index".

To get started with this demo, you must have an installation of Node.js and you must have installed the MySQL plugin through npm.

Install a MySQL server. MySQL Community Server will work fine. Import the .sql into your server using MySQL Workbench. Create a user for your MySQL server and give them complete access to this database.

Change the user and password attributes of the constant db within Application/Site/app.js

Open PowerShell if you are on Windows, Terminal if on MacOS, or a new shell environment if on Unix or Linux. Change the working directory to Application/Site. Run node app.js. Open a browser and go to localhost:3000. You're set to start playing with this neat little demo. ❤️