anthrax3 / cms-9

CMS and Mobile App Maker. Shovel apps is a web software that lets you create awesome mobile applications for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, with different designs for each platform with the web technologies that you love: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The whole platform and extensions are developed using Node.JS (JavaScript) and Web Components. Hybrid mobile apps feel like native ones, but are easier to maintain and scale. You have full access to native functionality using generic JavaScript methods (Camera, SD Card, microphone, contacts, etc.).

##Shovel apps CMS

Shovel apps CMS is a small full stack hybrid app. It's a mobile oriented web app with a backend CMS that allows you to configure the app frontend and backend services. From the CMS, you can request Shovel apps platform for a mobile app for iOS 7.x , Windows Phone 8.x and Android 4.x platforms.

• What sorcery is this?
• Installation
• Running
• Rest API Endpoints
• License
• Development
• Plugins
• Roadmap
• You can git clone it and start it as any other node project.
• Customized
• Use plugins that connect your appt to the Shovel apps Platform
• Build Android binariesfiles from the admin CMS

You could think about Shovelapps CMS as A pluggable CMS frontend and backend for mobile apps.

##What does Shovel apps CMS offer?

• A consistent CSS based UI. You don't have to fight with margins, responsivenes and stuff. You use the components in the templates and that's it.
• Easily customizable templates.
• The template is an HTML file. It uses custom elements as <navbar></navbar> <content-block></content-block>, <tab-bar></tab-bar>, etc for simplifying the definition of the app views structure.
• The custom elements are defined as a wrapper/facade to simple DIVs with some CSS classes applied
• A backend CMS that lets you defin data objects that the mobile app will consume.
• A plugin mechanism in which you can define plugins in the form of new HTML custom elements attached to custom functionality.

##What sorcery is this?

In brief

• As soon as you npm start you get a mobile, responsive iOS7 look-alike web app at http://localhost:3000. * This is how you final mobile app looks like*
• This web app can compile itself to an hybrid mobile app using Shovel apps platform backend service transparently.
• This app uses a local backend (http://localhost:3000/admin) for its own config and resources.
• This app gives you access to a building system that lets you download this app as a mobile binary.

##Installation

You may download or clone the Github hosted source. You get the same code.

###Downloading

Download latest release

or on the command line

$ wget https://github.com/oskosk/shovelapps-CMS/archive/master.zip

###Clone using git

# clone latest release
$ git clone https://github.com/shovelapps/shovelapps-CMS
## Install Shovel CMS dependencies
$ npm install

###Running

$ npm start

We recommend to install nodemon and

# Install node package globally
$ sudo npm install -g nodemon
# run the Shovel apps CMS with 
$ nodemon` # instead of `npm start`

Folder structure

Once cloned (or unzipped) you get:

├── admin
│   ├── fonts
│   ├── img
│   └── lib
├── builds
├── lib
├── plugins
├── templates
│   └── starter
└── main.js

Components

Plugins

###Default plugins

###Plugin Interface

plugins/shovelapps-form

API endpoints

GET /

HTML render of the app

GET /admin

This server the Shovel CMS admin backend.

REST API endpoints

POST /api/1/user

Add user

GET /api/1/app/:id/

Get app

GET /api/1/app/

Javascript client API

Internal NodeJS API

##Roadmap

Shovel CMS Frontend App

• Individual styles for each platform (WP8, Android 4.x and iOS >=7).
• Links to Google Play download in left CMS.
• Links to App store download in left CMS.
• Links to Google Play download in left CMS.
• Read plugins.
• Define plugin file structure.
• Non-scalable Android building node.
• Android building nodes.
• Non-scalable iOS building node .
• iOS building nodes.
• Non-scalable Windows Phone building node.
• Windows Phone building nodes.
• Render and cache the frontend (as sailsjs does).
• Implement data binding (maybe via Rivets.js) and attach the binding to socket.io emissions.

###Shovel CMS Admin Backend

• Use memory storage
• Use config files
• Use disk storage
• Use mongodb storage
• Add file based configuration
• Let the user define Data Models
• Let the user define pages inside templated views

License

Shovel apps CMS is distributed as free software under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2014 Shovel Apps Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.