ichthyos / marchforscience

March for science repository to take in issues

March for Science

Grassroots Management System

Infrastructure

Data Layer RethinkDB

API Layer LoopBack

Web Client Ember

Getting Set Up

Ensure the following is installed on your system before starting.

• Install Loopback CLI: npm install -g loopback-cli
• Install Ember CLI: npm install -g ember-cli
• NPM Install: npm install

Create a Google Cloud Platform service account and grant it the Cloud Datastore User role. Save the secret key as datastore-secret-key.json in the marchforscience project directory.

Create an .env file in the marchforscience project directory and populate it with the approprate values.

# Node Process Settings
NODE_ENV=development
NODE_SESSION_SECRET=

# Amazon S3 Configuration
S3_BUCKET=
S3_REGION=
S3_SECRET=
S3_KEY=

# Google Cloud Platform Configuration
GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID=
GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=

Getting Started

In two separate terminal tabs:

• Start the API server: npm run server
• Start the Ember client: npm start

The web app will be accessible at http://localhost:4200/

The API explorer will be accessible at http://localhost:4000/explorer

The database explorer will be accessible at http://localhost:8080/