Encircled Me

A web app that allows users to create their own contact page with links to social media or other websites.

The app is now live here: encircledme.razvanilin.com

• Give it a try
• Keep in mind that this is not a stable version and most important of all - it's not secure
• Don't use passwords that you use for other accounts (e.g. online banking)
• Feel free to open issues or send pull requests

Dev Environment Set-Up

Dependencies

• Node.js and NPM

On Windows and OSX: https://nodejs.org/

sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm

or

sudo yum install nodejs
sudo yum install npm

• Install MongoDB v2.6 or below https://www.mongodb.org/downloads

sudo apt-get install mongodb-org
or
sudo yum install mongodb-org

• Install Grunt, bower and yeoman

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
sudo npm install -g bower
sudo npm install -g yo

• Install compass gem

  gem install compass

  On Windows, install ruby from here http://rubyinstaller.org/ and then install the gem gem install compass from the command line

Getting and setting up the project

• Clone the repository on your machine

  git clone https://github.com/razvanilin/encircledme.git

• Navigate to the project folder and begin setup

cd encircledMe/
cd server/
npm install

cd ../client/
npm install
bower install

• Edit API port, db host and name, and the secret key used for generating tokens (server/settings.js)

module.exports = {
    dbhost: 'mongodb://your-ip/db-name',
    port: 3000,
    secret: 'place-your-key-here'
};

• Edit the IP address and port for the front-end application (client/Gruntfile.js)

connect: {
      options: {
        port: your-port,
        // Change this to '0.0.0.0' to access the server from outside.
        hostname: 'your-ip-address',
        livereload: 35729
      },

• Connect the Angular app to the server API (client/app/app.js)

.constant("CONFIG", {
        "API_HOST" : "your-api-host:port",
    })

Starting the project

• Create and start the database

mongod

mongo
use encircled
exit

• Start the API

cd server/
node index

• Start the Angular app

cd client/
grunt serve