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Twitter Clone | Voyage-5, Geckos-Team-16 | chingu.io

Team
Simon - Los Angeles, CA
Tiffany - San Fransisco, CA
Jared - Austin, TX

Goal
Create a clone of Twitter.

Minimal Viable Product
TBD

Stack

• NodeJS with Express
• MongoDB
• EJS
• CSS Grid (for layout)
• Bootstrap (for some elements)

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Getting Started

1. Fork this repo.

2. Clone your fork by running the git clone command in your terminal with the URL for your repo. It should look something like this:
   git clone https://github.com/<your username>/Geckos-Team-16.git

3. Next, you need to set the original repo (chingu-voyage5/Geckos-Team-16) as the "upstream." To do this, navigate to the directory you just cloned and run:
   git remote add upstream https://github.com/chingu-voyage5/Geckos-Team-16.git

Git Workflow

Before starting any work, make sure the files in your local directory (on your computer) are up-to-date with the ones in the upstream (the original chingu-voyage5/Geckos-Team-16 repo).

1. From inside your local directory, get the branches and their commits from upstream:
   git fetch upstream

2. Jump into the dev branch:
   git checkout dev

3. Merge the changes from upstream/dev into your local branch:
   git merge upstream/dev

Now you're ready to make your own changes!

Create a separate branch: git checkout -b <your branch name>

Naming branches
Name branches by type (bug, feature, refactor, or style) followed by a short description.
Examples of branch names via @Kornil:

• bug/fixed-all-caps
• feature/giant-duck-modal
• refactor/add-prop-types
• style/everything-is-black

Once you've saved and committed your changes, fetch the latest code again:

git checkout dev  
git fetch upstream

Switch back to the branch you were working on and merge:

git checkout <your branch name>
git merge upstream/dev

Fix any conflicts and push your new branch to origin (your fork on Github):
git push origin <your branch name>

In your repo on Github, make a pull request from your new branch against the dev branch of the original repo.