dart-communities

This demonstrates a fairly fleshed out client and server Dart application. It's a tool that lets people share across various communities.

It's free and open source. We hope it helps others as they navigate the world of Dart and Polymer, and we hope it helps us as others scrutinize our approach and help us improve.

This is serving as the base for our latest work with Woven. A live version can be found at http://mycommunity.org for now. Please sign up!

Components

Polymer (encapsulated and interoperable custom elements)
Polymer core-elements (a great core set of custom elements)
Polymer paper-elements (some elements based on Material Design from Google)
Firebase (store and sync data in realtime)

The app demonstrates an approach to client/server routing and communication, Facebook sign in and more.

Caveats

Please note that at some point we'll likely fork continued work on our product to a private repo.
Please excuse the mess. I'm playing and learning, and I welcome your input and contributions.

Setup

If you don't have it yet, get the Dart SDK. This is currently tested with 1.6.
It's a good idea to add the Dart tools to your $PATH.
Clone this repo, then run pub get in the main directory to get all the dependencies.
Create your own config.dart in lib/config by copying the example found there.
You may wish to set your own hostname there, and map that hostname to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file.
Get your own Firebase URL – sign up, create a Firebase app and replace my URL with yours.
Actually, for now you have to manually create the communities in the database. So it doesn't hurt to use my development Firebase URL in the meantime.
Start the server with sudo dart start.dart and then visit the URL that's set in your configuration in Dartium.
You can also pub build (dart2js) the app to run it in any modern browser. Set the directory in your configuration to build/web first.

Get in touch

Don't hesitate to reach out: [email protected] or via the app itself: http://mycommunity.org/woven

Contributors: Kai Sellgren

Lots of help from the Dart team and community on Stack Overflow and elsewhere.

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