Ember Collective 🔥

Ember Collective is an educational resource for anti-racism and supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. You can browse non-profit organizations to support, interact with the Police Brutality Tracker, and send donation match challenges to other users.

• Website
• Link to backend
• Project tracker

Table of contents

• Getting started
• Features
• Tech stack
• Tools

Getting started

1. Install the Rails backend

2. Install Node.js and npm

   $ brew install node
   

3. Clone this repo and cd into the directory

4. Install all dependencies

   $ npm install
   

5. Make sure the Rails server is already running and open up a new terminal to run this app

   $ npm start
   

Features

Police brutality tracker

• Displays an interactive map using the Mapbox API
• Pulls data about police brutality events from an external dataset provided by Mapping Police Violence
• Converted +7,000 lines of data from a CSV file to a JSON file

Browse organizations

• View a list of non-profit organizations and mutual aid funds that support the Black Lives Matter movement
• Filter organizations by tag or search for keywords, titles, and locations
• Users with accounts over 2-days old can nominate new organizations and verify existing organizations' information

Donation match challenges

• Users can challenge each other to match donations to an existing organization on the site
• Built self-referential relationships to join the logged in user with another user

Education resources

• Browse anti-racism and police abolition resources by tags

Memorial page

• A memorial page for the Black people that we've have lost to police brutality and racial violence.
• Remember their names, learn their stories, and support their families' gofundmes and foundations.

Global state management

• Used Redux to globally manage the application state

React components

• Created +20 React components and organized the code structure by separating them into feature-specific folders
• Implemented inverse data flow to send props down and up between parent components and child components
• Used asynchronous fetches to pull data from the Rails backend

ActiveRecord associations

• Designed 10 database models that have has_many, belongs_to and has_many through associations
• Used ActiveModelSerializers, which turns model attributes into JSON object keys

Tech stack

• React.js
• Redux
• Ruby on Rails API (Backend: https://github.com/isabelxklee/ember-collective-backend)
• PostgreSQL
• HTML/CSS
• Active Record

Tools

• Rack CORS
• ActiveModel::Serializer
• BCrypt: Ruby binding the OpenBSD bcrypt() password hashing algorithm.
• Geocoding API: The Geocoding API is a service that provides geocoding and reverse geocoding of addresses.
• Mapbox API: Mapbox GL JS is a JavaScript library that uses WebGL to render interactive maps from vector tiles and Mapbox styles.
• Moment.js: Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript.
• Pluralize: Display plural or singular form of a word based on a count.
• React Router: React Router is a collection of navigational components that compose declaratively with your application.
• React Scroll to Top Button: React Component for a fixed scroll to top button.

Live demo

https://embercollective.org