apocist/uniformity

First attempts at a CMS

uniformity

A simple but highly customizable NodeJS CMS. Still in alpha development, but provides modular plug and play capabilities to offer only the features you're looking for in a website.

Cannot be used in a production environment at this time.

Install

Install from npm using:

$ npm install uniformity

You will need an Authentication Plugin to perform any changes. The only one available at this time can be installed via

$ npm run plugin 'uniformity-auth-twitter'

Configure your correct Twitter API settings in ./config/config.json (refer to ./config/defaults.json at uniformity-auth-twitter)

NOTE: Any minor version updates may require a npm install to acquire the latest libraries. During Alpha stages, updates will not be considered backwards-compatible.

Plugins

Install any other needed plugins stored in the npm repository. Example:

$ npm run plugin 'uniformity-blog'

Dependencies

#####Needed to install separately

• Mongo Database
• node-gyp (see notes)

Usage

NOTE: A Mongo Database is required before starting the uniformity service.

$ npm start

The service will then state it is running on the port configured in ./config/config.json.

Notes

It has been known that on Windows platforms, it may be necessary to install node-gyp globally with:

$ npm install -g node-gyp

uniformity's Issues

Syntax Error in package.json

There is a syntax error in package.json.
The syntax error is a missing comma on line 25. This makes the "dependencies" object incomplete which causes any attempt to download the module's dependencies automatically impossible.

Complete Base Theme

Need to provide a basic 'theme' for the blank slate to be somewhat pleasant to look at. Intentionally needs to be 'basic'.

Also...what is the web design portion going to be called? Themes? Skins? Design? Anyone have any thoughts?

Missing License

Uniformity is missing a license and a valid SPDX license expression in package.json.

Sitemap/Menu System

Need to provide a means for users to get around the pages.

Basic Plugin

Basic Plugin Support

Provide Detailed Documentation

A list of specific items will soon come here:

Basic User Interface

Interface needs to be able to Create and Edit every model type, working with the permissions assign to user.

Catastrophic Failure

Upon running the service with Mongo authentication, it seems to simply crash, but the same authentication works fine in RoboMongo.

Base Models:
[ '/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/app/models/menuItem.js',
  '/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/app/models/routable.js',
  '/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/app/models/route.js' ]

/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/node_modules/mongodb/lib/utils.js:99
    process.nextTick(function() { throw err; });
                                  ^
MongoError: auth failed
    at Function.MongoError.create (/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/error.js:31:11)
    at /mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:483:72
    at authenticateStragglers (/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:429:16)
    at null.messageHandler (/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/pool.js:463:5)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (/mnt/sdc/services/uniformity/node_modules/mongodb-core/lib/connection/connection.js:309:22)
    at emitOne (events.js:77:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:169:7)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:146:16)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:110:10)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:523:20)