projecteev

Project task management system

Installation

Platform & tools

You need to install Node.js and then the development tools. Node.js comes with a package manager called npm for installing NodeJS applications and libraries.

• Install node.js (requires node.js version >= 0.8.4)

• Install Grunt-CLI and Karma as global npm modules:

  npm install -g grunt-cli karma
  

(Note that you may need to uninstall grunt 0.3 globally before installing grunt-cli)

Get the Code

Either clone this repository or fork it on GitHub and clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:vatrai/projecteev.git
cd projecteev

App Server

Our backend application server is a NodeJS application that relies upon some 3rd Party npm packages. You need to install these:

• Install local dependencies (from the project root folder):

  cd server
  npm install
  cd ..
  

  (This will install the dependencies declared in the server/package.json file)

Client App

Our client application is a straight HTML/Javascript application but our development process uses a Node.js build tool Grunt.js. Grunt relies upon some 3rd party libraries that we need to install as local dependencies using npm.

• Install local dependencies (from the project root folder):

  cd client
  npm install
  cd ..
  

  (This will install the dependencies declared in the client/package.json file)

Building

• Optionally change the name of admin user in server/lib/initDB.js. The default is 'Admin' (admin@abc.com : changeme).

  var initDB = {
    adminUser: { email: 'admin@abc.com', password: 'changeme', admin: true, firstName: 'Admin', lastName: 'User' },
  });
  // Note the user information, including password, are stored as plain text in the MongoLab database.
  

• Run our initialization script to initialize the database with a first admin user (admin@abc.com : changeme).

  node server/initDB.js
  

Build the client app

The app made up of a number of javascript, css and html files that need to be merged into a final distribution for running. We use the Grunt build tool to do this.

• Build client application:

  cd client
  grunt build
  cd ..
  

It is important to build again if you have changed the client configuration as above.

Running

Start the Server

• Run the server

  cd server
  node server.js
  cd ..
  

• Browse to the application at [http://localhost:3000]

• Login with the admin user as defined in server/lib/initDB.js.