jstogether!

Local development

You will need these tools for local development:

• git
• nodejs
• python 2.7
• mongodb
• A c++ compiler, such as visual studio

And these for deployment:

• heroku

Setup Environment

Be sure to check "Add to system path" when installing Python.

In order for github authentication to work, you'll need to create 2 environment variables:

• GITHUB_CLIENT_ID: xxx
• GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET: xxx

Admins have these values.

Clone the repository:

git clone [email protected]:jstogether/jstogether.git

Install the NPM dependencies. This will also execute an NPM postinstall script (found in package.json), which will compile/build the project source and bundle into /public/bundle.js and /public/css/main.css using gulp tasks browserify and sass.

npm install

Start the gulp taskrunner and go nuts! This will start the watch task, so that whenever you save a source file it will automatically re-compile/bundle all relevant parts of the project, and restart the nodejs server (if required).

gulp

You can also run tasks individually like so:

• gulp sass // compile SASS -> /public/css/main.css
• gulp browserify // compile JS -> /public/bundle.js
• gulp server // Run the node server

Deployment to production

Add the jstogether Heroku server as a git remote server (you will need permission to push to this server):

git remote add heroku [email protected]:jstogether.git

To push your local react branch to the Heroku server:

git push heroku master

Questions?

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