Mural of Positions

Find a NASA Space Apps Challenge Team over the Hackathon
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About The Project

The mural of position helped participants to find a Space Apps team and teams to choose new members over the hackathon on October 2020. It managers the available positions of a team like a job board.

Mural built with

• Reactjs - frontend framework
• Firebase - database

Importer built with

• Javascript
• node-html-parser
• puppeteer
• spa-crawler

Steps of Usage

Create a Firebase DB if aplicable

The database is an array of objects with a structure:
{
"location", //string
"lookingForMembers", //boolean
"positions", //array
"teamName", //string
"updated", //datetime
"url" //string
}

Export a backup of the DB if applicable

This step is necessary because the addition of positions is executed after the crawling. This information is recovered from the backup to the new version of the database. The script compareBackup will do this task.

Run the script crawler

I didn't have access to the official database of the hackathon. Therefore, the crawler reads the entire page (SPA) of the Universal Event teams. In case of a team has the badge "looking for members", it is selected and stored into a JSON file.

Run the script compareBackup

This script reads the result of the previous step and injects the positions of each team.

Import the new DB to the Firebase

Firebase receives the new database with teams looking members and current positions.

See the updates via the Mural page

After that, the participant can see the updates

Update Teams

The most common activity is to add new positions to a team. A member of a team informs the necessary skills. The mural has a method to send the new skills of a team to Firebase.

Contact

Alexandre Alves
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