mattlevan / toro-net

social networking bulletin board system

Toro Net

Getting

Fork the repo then clone it to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/<your username>/toro-net.git

Getting started with VirtualBox

Fork the repo then clone it to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/<your username>/toro-net.git

Change your directory into the dir on your VirtualBox Ubuntu virtual machine.

cd toro-net

Configuring environment variables file

Update your environment settings by creating a file .env as below:

PORT=3000
MONGO_URI=mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/toro-net
GITHUB_ID=233245n234566kjh243f
GITHUB_SECRET=k2hj432kjgjkh2g34kj2g4jkh23g4jk2342jhg34
APP_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3000/
NEO4J_PROTOCOL=http
NEO4J_HOST=127.0.0.1
NEO4J_PORT=7474
NEO4J_USERNAME=neo4j
NEO4J_PASSWORD=neo4j

Virtual Box Setup Instructions

These instructions assume an Ubuntu environment. To use Vagrant, get started here

Install and run everything

$ ./bin/install.sh &
$ ./bin/db.sh &
$ ./bin/backend.sh &
$ ./bin/frontend.sh &

Update neo4j's default password:

http://localhost:7474
Fill in username:password with neo4j:neo4j
Change password to "admin" (or whatever, just make sure to update it in .env file)

WAIT 2 MINUTES FOR NEO4J TO BECOME READY.

Open a new terminal window and navigate to toro-net.

Open http://localhost:3000 in any web browser.