DuArts

Mobile Web App for Duke Arts

Installation Instructions

Make sure you have node and npm installed. If you don't have it yet, go to nodejs.org

git clone git@github.com:yangsu/DuArts.git
cd DuArts
npm install -d

In your application directory

node app.js

Use screen to start the server with the command supervisor app.js

To run the server on port 80, simply do sudo PORT=80 supervisor app.js

The data is collected on the server using cron. SSH into the server and using crontab -e to edit frequency.

The database resides on the server, which is currently here. The path is set here.

Backend:

Node.js
- Mongoose - MongoDB driver for Node.js
- Underscore - Utility functions
- Async - Async Control Flow
- Express - Web Framework for Node.js
MongoDB - Document Store
Jade - Server side html templating
Stylus - Server side css generator

Frontend:

You can find most of what you need in the page above. Focus on Backbone, jQuery, and Node.js.