MyHonors (Web)

MyHonors (Web) is a fast, highly performant and beautiful web platform that connects FIU Honors College students, clubs, professors and staff.

Starting Development

1. Setup the appropriate configuration settings (keys, reference URLs, etc.) at app/.config.js.
2. npm install to install all of our development dependencies.
3. npm install bower -g to install Bower globally (if you have not)
4. bower install to install all of our front-end dependencies.
5. gulp to run gulp, our task runner that automates things like SASS to CSS compilation, JS minification and uglifying, JSX and/or Typescript to JS compilation.

Technology

MyHonors uses a myriad of web technologies. Some frameworks, tools, and libraries that are used are:

Core Frameworks/Libraries

• FirebaseJS for storing data in real-time to the Firebase database
• AngularJS for organizing and abstracting client-side Javascript app logic
• Bootstrap for the app's interface and design

Build Process

• Gulp for automating some tasks like running our tests, minification, code-hints and many more
• Bower for handling our front-end dependencies
• Jasmine for unit-testing our Javascript code
• Travis CI for continous-integration, ensuring the quality of our production code

Ground rules

To keep MyHonors highly scalable, it needs to follow a certain discipline in its development environment. Here are some ground rules to follow:

• Always write your tests before you write your code - Behavior Driven Development!
• Make sure that tests pass and that you are in sync with the current master branch before making a pull request/merge to the master branch!
• Follow John Papa's Angular Style Guide!
• Overview of Javascript, including ES6/ES7!

For more information, do not hesitate to check out the Wiki!