AutoMate

A conference speaker management application that integrates with websites built with WordPress.

Live Site

https://automate.hweitian.com/

Login with the following:
Email: [email protected]
PW: geNie@89757

Screenshots

Main Features

• Create conference and link each conference to a WordPress website
• Add contacts and assign contact as a speaker for each conference
• Add a contact as the administrator of the system
• CRUD sessions and publish it user specified WordPress website
• Create program overview and publish it on user specified WordPress website
• Create speaker's presentation schedule based on the assigned topics in each session

Tech Used

• Frontend: React
• Backend: Express.js
• Database: Sequelize (ORM), PostgreSQL
• Routing: React Router
• UI: Shadcn
• Storage: Firebase
• Forms: React Hook Forms
• Authentication: Auth0
• API: WordPress API, SendGrid

Setup

Frontend Folder

1. Clone repo to local

2. Configure .env file, make sure to get your own API keys stated below and insert it into your .env file

   • If unsure where to get API keys, refer to the Tech Used for the documents

   VITE_DOMAIN= <Auth0 Domain>
   VITE_CLIENT_ID= <Auth0 client id>
   VITE_AUDIENCE= <Auth0 app audience>
   VITE_BASE_URL= <Local Backend server URL>
   VITE_APP_BASE_URL= <Backend server URL> (only required if not running server locally) 
   VITE_APP_FIREBASE_API= <Firebase API key>
   VITE_ENV=development
   

3. npm i to install all dependencies

4. npm start to run the application

Backend Folder

1. npm i to install dependencies
2. Install and start postgresql database locally
3. npx sequelize db:create to create database
4. npx sequelize db:migrate to create tables
5. npx sequelize db:seed:all to create seed data
6. Create an Auth0 account and setup an Auth0 API and Applications
7. Create a SendGrid account, setup Sending Identity and generate an API key
8. Create your WordPress website and setup API Authentication with miniOrange WordPress Rest API

DB_USERNAME=postgres
DB_PASSWORD= <Postgres database password>
DB_NAME= <Postgres database name>
DB_HOST= <Postgres database host>
DB_DIALECT=postgres
PORT=3000
NODE_ENV=development

AUDIENCE= <Auth0 Domain>
BASEURL= <Auth0 base URL>
AUTH_CONNECTION_ID= <Auth0 Authentication database identifier>
AUTH_DOMAIN= <Auth0 API domain>
AUTH_CLIENTID= <Auth0 client id>
AUTH_SECRET= <Auth0 Machine to Machine client secret key>
AUTH_REDIRECTURL= <Frontend Application URL>
AUTH_CONNECTION= <Auth0 database name>
AUTH_TEMP_PW= <Temporary Password - Can be anything>
SENDGRID_API_KEY= <SendGrid API Key>
SG_EMAIL= <Email address configured in SendGrid>
WORDPRESS_NAME= <WordPress login name>
WORDPRESS_PW= <WordPress login password>

9. npm run devStart to run database locally

Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)

Furture Features

• Notify user if there is a conflict in speaker's presentation schedule when adding a speaker to a session
• Reorganise topics in each session with drag-and-drop

Contributors

• Me, Choo Liang Yi
• Huang Weitian