GalleXy

An internet presence for the amazing projects created by students here at MIT. A gallery website for displaying projects for public consumption. To be used by ProjX and HackMIT.

Features

• A full gallery view with individual project pages.
• Profile and Check In system for individual teams.
• Authentication supporting profile system, along with MIT Certificate verification to allow for MIT Students
• Author/Team pages for letting project creators show off.

Developers

• Angel Alvarez
• Emily Liu

Goals

• populate database by allowing users (project teams) to provide check-in data
• populate database with admin check-in system

Getting started

After you download the code from this repository, your going to want to do the following things:

1. Make sure to npm install in the repo, and that the NodeJS you have installed is later than 6.0.0 (For email support).
2. Create a settings.js file and database folder in the gallexy folder. * Your settings folder should look like this:

module.exports = {
  mongoUri: "data", /*RELATIVE TO THE Project location if using gulp and localhost*/
  mongoHost: "mongodb://localhost/",
  winMachine: false,  /* whether or not the computer is running windows, or linux/mac OS. This affects the automation of the tasks.*/
  port:3000,  /* PORT TO RUN THE SERVER, use 80 or 8080 for HTTP */
  secret: "7928xj9kd01xj0x9mu98ex", /* Secret used to create sessions. keep secret. */
  admins: ['alvareza@mit.edu'], /*you can define admins for the website using their emails. */
  verificationExpiration: 86400000, /* sets in seconds how long you want to wait for the code to expire */
  mailTransporter: { /*the mail transporter object can be customized based on the nodemailer documentation*/
    service: 'gmail',
    auth: {
      user: 'gallexy-emailer@gmail.com',
      pass: '<email-password>' //Keep this secret
    }
  },
  https: true, /* Enables use of secure cookies. */
  appURL: 'localhost:3000', /*relative to the outward facing internet, if using an http port, omit the port. */
  devMode: true /*set if you want the app to not send emails and auto register people when the sign up, good for testing. */
};

3. simply run gulp to start the server and database. * If the DB doesn't work, you could run it using the mongod command, modify the DB URL in the app.js, then run the app using npm start

API

Documentation coming soon

Sources

• Background image (NASA JPL): https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA07136
• Footer alignment: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page
• sign in/up format: https://semantic-ui.com/examples/login.html