MGT 656 Project

Getting started

For the following instructions, we assume that you are logged into the virtual machine you are using for MGT 656.

Install the dependencies

    $ npm install
    $ bower install

Note: Bower is a dependency manager for frontend packages (css, client-side js, etc...).

And, finally, you can run the code

    ./node_modules/.bin/gulp

That will run the nodemon program, which is a nice way of running node and then restarting it when your files change. Every time your files change, it will also run http://www.jshint.com/docs/ to check your JavaScript code for bad practices.

Test your code

Type the following command in order to run the BDD tests.

./node_modules/.bin/mocha

That will run all the tests in test/tests.js.

Heroku App

Deployed at:

https://mgt-656-mightylake.herokuapp.com/

Continuously deployed off of the master branch.

What we're using

This application relies on a number of open source projects. Obviously, it is a node.js application. We are using the following components, which are built for node applications and written by people that have made them open source.

• express.js: Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
• nunjucks: A templating language for JavaScript. This allows us to say there is a certain default page and every other page should like just like it, maybe changing just small parts.
• morgan: HTTP request logger middleware for node.js, written by the people who write Express. This allows us to print pretty logging statements while the application is handling requests.
• validator: A library of string validators and sanitizers. This helps us ensure that parameters sent to our application by users are valid.
• body-parser: Node.js body parsing middleware by the people who write Express.