red-crown / lighterpack

LighterPack

LighterPack is a website to track the gear you take on adventures. It is still in Beta.

LighterPack is built on a node.js/jQuery/vanillaJS/mongo stack.

How to run Lighterpack

1. Install node.js and mongo

2. git clone https://github.com/galenmaly/lighterpack.git

3. Install packages:

   • npm install express
   • npm install cookie-parser
   • npm install body-parser
   • npm install mongojs
   • npm install mustache
   • npm install node.extend
   • npm install nodemailer
   • npm install connect
   • npm install compression
   • npm install nodemailer-sendmail-transport
   • npm install formidable

4. run via nodejs app.js

Running with Vagrant

1. Install Vagrant and VirtualBox

2. Download Vagrantfile and node-bootstrap.sh from vagrant folder to a folder on your local machine

3. Run "vagrant up" in the folder where you downloaded the two files.

You can then ssh to the machine on port 2222 or open a web browser to http://localhost:8080.

Future non-feature initiatives

• Migrate to postgres document store from mongo
• Split up LESS files into more logical files (using LESS imports to keep the same # of .css files)
• Split up edit.js somehow + setup a build step to concat files back together