Sponsoring a student hackathon? You've come to the right place! American Airlines loves to help students learn new tech and we're passionate about being a big part of hackathons.

Whether you need help with judging which hack did the best job of tackling your challenge, you want to connect with students who need help, or you want to recruit students and capture resumes, Hangar will make your experience easy and enjoyable for everyone.

If you need insipiration for challenges, check out some of our past challenges.

This app is still in the early stages of development and only some functionality is currently avaiable. If you want to help expedite our development, become a contributor!

You don't need to be technical to create your own instance of Hangar. Follow they steps below and you'll be up and running in less than 5 minutes!

Before you can use Hangar, you'll need to create a Slack app. Follow our instructions for creating an app. Once you're done with the first section, continue below.

Once your Slack app is up and running, click the button below and complete the form using your Slack secrets.

Once your app is running, copy your app's URL and complete the final configuration of your Slack app.

If you'd like to customize the app, fork this repo. If you have an idea for something and you'd like to contribute back to this project, create a new Feature request. If we like your suggestion, we'll ask you to open a Pull Request. For more details, check out our Contributing Guidelines.

When you're ready to deploy your app, simply change the URL for the Deploy to Heroku button then merge it into your master branch. Once your repo is updated, just use that button you'll be good to go!

This project uses GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration and leverages Heroku for Continuous Deployment.

If you fork this project, deploy your app using the Deploy to Heroku button above, then navigate to the Deploy tab of your app in Heroku and configure Continuous Deployment as relevant for your app.

Hangar uses Postgres 11, so you'll need to set it up on your machine, create a database (we suggest hangar, if you chose something else or are running your server on a different port, make sure to create a DATABASE_URL value in .env with your override URL), and then run the app. When the app is deployed to a cloud environment, the DATABASE_URL .env var will be used (and is automatically set in Heroku when an associated service is connected to your app).

If database schema is changed, the migrations must be changed accordingly. After starting the app (or using npm run typeorm migration:run), make changes to files in the src/entities directory as needed and then run npm run typeorm migration:generate -- -n MigrationName where MigrationName is the name of the migration (without the timestamp).

Do not update or remove an existing migration, as this can cause unexpected issues with local and production data. All database schema changes must be made in a new migration.

Interested in contributing to the project? Check out our Contributing Guidelines.