HackingEDU Web App

Table of contents

• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Running Locally
• Server Stuff

Prerequisites

• node
• npm (usually included with node)
• mongo

Installation

Clone the repo. Navigate to the app's directory and run:

npm install

Keep in mind whenever a npm package is added, we'll have to re-run npm install

Running Locally

1. Create a local MongoDB database called tweets (configured in server.js).
2. Replace credentials for Twitter API (configured in config.js). I don't intend to have my twitter locked. After running npm install, sudo service mongod start, and making a sandwich, here's a set of commands to get it up and running.

• npm run watch – Running this command starts a watchify watch, so when we edit our js files, they get browserified on save.
• npm run build – Running this command builds our bundle.js and minifies it for production
• npm start – Running this command sets up a watch and runs our app via nodemon
• node server – This command is what we use to run our app.
• pm2 start server.js - This command runs it as a background process. (requires pm2)

Server Stuff

• Option 1: For easy deployment, run this in your local repo and enter the server password that you received from me:

git remote add prod james@107.170.247.179:app

Now you can just git push prod master on your local repo to deploy without ssh-ing in. Thank git hooks for this.

• Option 2: If the changes don't propogate on the live server

ssh james@107.170.247.179

and ask me for the password. The repo is located at /home/james/app. Just git pull to update it. You may need to restart the app with pm2 restart server.js.