wilhuff / firesale

Quick demonstration of using Firebase as a backend for a trading simulation

Setup

System

You need a few things to build and run this

• Node.js
• Grunt
• Bower
• A Firebase demo account

On Ubuntu that would be

sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli bower

Firebase

• Create a new application

• Go find your authorization secret in the control panel

• Create a file containing the secret and firebase URL in sim/secret.json:

  {
    "secret": "your secret here",
    "firebase": "http://your-firebase.firebaseio.com/"
  }
  

• TODO(wilhuff): Import security rules

• Actual users can self-register on the website

Source tree

• Download packages

  npm install
  bower install
  (cd sim; npm install)
  

Running

Once you have an environment going, do this:

• In one window, start the backend

  (cd sim; nodejs app.js)
  

• In another window, start a web server. This will also open a browser pointing at the local host.

  grunt serve