event-starter-kit / website

All you need for your event website (WIP)

Event Starter Kit Website

Welcome ESK project. if you don't know what ESK is please read these links link1 link2

To run this application you have to install Node 4.x or greather (get it here) and an instance MongoDB (mlab offers a free MongoDB installation)

Build tools

if you don't have installed the following tools, please run these commands:

$ npm install -g gulp
$ npm install -g typings
$ npm install -g typescript

First run

Go into the root folder and execute the following commands:

$ npm install
$ typings install

Compile from command line

This project uses Typescript, if you don't know what Typescript is, here the definition

TypeScript lets you write JavaScript the way you really want to. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.

For more info, take a look here

To run the website as developer from command line runs this command:

$ gulp serve

To create the dist folder, run:

$ gulp

If you get some errors, please open an issue here.

Now you should get a new folder into your repo Build. Go there and run `node app.js' and everything should works (see credential section).

The output should looks like this:

Credentials

This website uses some parameters to connect to MongoDB or other services.

To get it work is important to set the appropriate environmental variables with the right values: you find the list of the needed environmental variables in the credentials.ts in src/config.

export class Mongo {
    public static ConnectionString: string = process.env.MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING || "mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds047632.mongolab.com:47632/dbname";
}

Or you can also simply configure them based on your OS. For example, with Mac OS X or Linux you will do

$ export MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING ='mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds047632.mongolab.com:47632/dbname'

you have to do this for all variables available on credentials.ts