js-api-redux

Assumes NodeJS has already been installed. If not, install it.

1. git clone [this repo url]
2. npm install from root
3. import mysql db from root/mysqldb: mysql -u username -p[root_password] [database_name] < dumpfilename.sql - make sure the database remains named 'fitness'. also make sure user 'bp' w/pw 'guitarstring' is available locally and has all privs
4. npm install -g nodemon
5. npm install -g gulp
6. in separate terminal window, cd views/client; run command gulp
7. from root dir, nodemon server.js - nodemon is a node daemon that will restart upon changes to any server files (client files are ignored)
8. point browser to localhost:8080/

The initial setup was based off of: https://scotch.io/tutorials/easy-node-authentication-setup-and-local

Further expanded to be Sequelize-d by way of: http://stribny.name/blog/2015/09/authentication-quickstart-with-express-passport-and-sequelize

Technologies used, for quick reference:

Server

• NodeJS
  • express (routing/middleware - http://expressjs.com/)
  • passport (auth - http://passportjs.org/)
  • sequelize (MySQL ORM - http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/)
  • nodemon (watcher daemon - http://nodemon.io/)
• MySQL
• EJS (templates - http://www.embeddedjs.com/)

Client

• RequireJS (modular management - this will change over to ES2015/Babel/Webpack soon)
• Backbone
• Chartist