Nachbar

Nachbar is going to be a location-based real-time network, which allows user to communicate with nearbys through broadcast or private messages.

The basic scenario is as following:

• User A fills out nickname and some extra info, then login(No registration needed).
• The system judges user A's geological position by GPS or IP, then find and return nearbys to A.
• The client(browser or app) displays the nearbys on a map or as a list.
• User A sends private message to one nearby B, or broadcasts a message so that all nearbys can receive it.

Online demo: http://nachbar.no.de

Technology

Following technologies are used in the project:

• node.js
• express
• mongodb
• mongoose
• coffee-script
• jade
• backbone.js
• socket.io
• jquery
• jquery-ui
• blueprint

How to run

Softwares to install

First, intall node.js

Second, install npm

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Finally, install mongodb

Source and Packages

First, get source code from github

git clone git://github.com/liufengyun/nachbar.git

Then, install packages

cd nachbar

npm install

Next, make sure your mongodb is running.

Now run and have a cup of coffee:-)

node server.js

Thanks

The initial code is based on the chat example of socket.io, see below:

https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/tree/master/examples/chat

Contacts

Please send email to liufengyunchina@gmail.