Robotics Club Site - Entry for Sporediggers Competition November 2021

Overview of Goals

Features

• Front page gives info about the club, how to join, our goals, etc.
• Projects and/or Team page(s) show what we are currently doing/recently did.
• A donation link that pops open a new tab/window to the foundation donation page for Robotics Club.
• A help page that tells users how to use the website
• Discord integration for ease of permissions
• Edit log that sends a message to an officer-only discord channel that shows who changed what on the website
• Robotics Club Schedule (When Space is being used, when do teams meet?)
• (Optional/Stretch Goal) Budget tools for Treasurers
• (Optional/Stretch Goal) Github integration

Permissions

• Officers in discord server automatically get admin on website to edit all pages
• Team Leaders in discord server automatically get edit access to teams/projects page
• Members of the discord get access to leave comments on projects, find our github org links, and more.
• Guests who don't login can see all pages but get no comment/edit buttons/accesss

All goals have been met besides the Optional Goals.

In order to use the site with the default, test settings, you need to take a few steps. The bot token will be given on request for sake of judging or testing.

Environmental Variables: IP=localhost (or wherever you host it) PORT=53134 DBPASS='robotics' OFFICER_ROLE_ID='904785555542376469' TOKEN=

Join the test discord at https://discord.gg/W2rqUtmzPu

Technical Features

• Node JS backend using EJS as a front end engine.
• MongoDB hosted online to store teams information.
• Proper NoSQL Schema and Model techniques demonstrated via team model
• Discord Oauth2 Integration. This controls permissions to edit/delete/add Teams to the database.
• Dynamic Teams using CRUD routes. Teams.js under routes demonstrates CRUD
• Discord Webhooks used to send website logs to the discord server.
• Bootstrap used to help the front end look better
• Discord Bot integrated into the build to help manage both Discord Servers and the Website