allow creation of first user from UI?

[jaredly]

To make things even easier, perhaps we could show a "create admin user" screen -- if there are zero users in the database (which would only be the very first time it's run).

[peterbraden]

Yes, this comes back to something I've wanted to do for a while which is a proper onboarding flow - setting up the first user, database url, and adding the first repo.

[jaredly]

Hmmm database url? So setting an ENV variable? or writing to a config file?

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Peter Braden notifications@github.comwrote:

Yes, this comes back to something I've wanted to do for a while which is a proper onboarding flow - setting up the first user, database url, and adding the first repo.

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[niallo]

I envisage something like the web-based wizard you get on a vanilla WordPress install.

We'd have a flow for:

• Adding admin user
• Setting up database (perhaps even provisioning, on a platform like Heroku)
• Configuring OAuth for Github
• Etc

I actually had an app which would do this, but it was for an older version of Strider (back when we had a config file). All you had to do was enter your Heroku API key and it could fully install & configure a Strider instance for you:

https://github.com/niallo/deadlift

[jaredly]

Right; wordpress uses a file to store config.

And I think that would be totally appropriate for us too; there will be a number of configuration options, and I'd rather have them in a file than having tons of ENV vbls.

I think STRIDER_CONFIG_FILE could be in env, defaulting to something reasonable.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:10 PM, niallo notifications@github.com wrote:

I envisage something like the web-based wizard you get on a vanilla WordPress install.

We'd have a flow for:

• Adding admin user
• Setting up database (perhaps even provisioning, on a platform like Heroku)
• Configuring OAuth for Github
• Etc

I actually had an app which would do this, but it was for an older version of Strider (back when we had a config file). All you had to do was enter your Heroku API key and it could fully install & configure a Strider instance for you:

https://github.com/niallo/deadlift

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[niallo]

Yeah, we should have an environment variable and a -c [config file] flag on the CLI interface would be nice too.

[jaredly]

Sounds great. So what format do we like best? javascript? or json/yaml?

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Yeah, we should have an environment variable and a -c [config file] flag on the CLI interface would be nice too.

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[niallo]

Problem with json is it doesn't allow comments unfortunately. Not the biggest fan of yaml but it might be the right choice here.

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On Jul 26, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Jared Forsyth notifications@github.com wrote:

Sounds great. So what format do we like best? javascript? or json/yaml?

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Yeah, we should have an environment variable and a -c [config file] flag on the CLI interface would be nice too.

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[peterbraden]

Json for sure

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Sounds great. So what format do we like best? javascript? or json/yaml?

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Yeah, we should have an environment variable and a -c [config file] flag on the CLI interface would be nice too.

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[jaredly]

What about using something like json-minify? https://github.com/getify/JSON.minify That would give us comments.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Peter Braden notifications@github.comwrote:

Json for sure

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Sounds great. So what format do we like best? javascript? or json/yaml?

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Yeah, we should have an environment variable and a -c [config file] flag on the CLI interface would be nice too.

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[niallo]

+1

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On Jul 26, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Jared Forsyth notifications@github.com wrote:

What about using something like json-minify? https://github.com/getify/JSON.minify That would give us comments.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Peter Braden notifications@github.comwrote:

Json for sure

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On Jul 26, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Jared Forsyth notifications@github.com wrote:

Sounds great. So what format do we like best? javascript? or json/yaml?

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Yeah, we should have an environment variable and a -c [config file] flag on the CLI interface would be nice too.

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[peterbraden]

+2

[knownasilya]

node-config with json5