imclab/arounditp

AroundITP

AroundITP is a web resource for students at NYU ITP.

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Live site: http://arounditp.herokuapp.com/

Dependencies

package.json:

{
"name": "express_w_mongodb",
"version": "0.0.1",
"engines": {
    "node": "0.6.10",
    "npm": "1.1.1"
},
"dependencies": {
    "express": "2.5.6",
    "ejs": "latest",
    "mongoose": "2.5.6",
    "request": "2.9.153",
    "twit": "0.1.3",
    "yelp":	"0.1.1"
	}
}

Be sure to install the Node modules above via Terminal, e.g.:

npm install twit

The Twit module requires Twitter API keys, and the Yelp module requires Yelp API keys. Sign up as a developer on those sites for access to those features. Include keys in your .env file. Your .env file should be included in your .gitignore file.

Heroku add-ons: MONGOLAB

Routes

• GET '/' - main route, links to other major routes

• GET '/discuss' - forum page with thread list

• GET '/entry/:urlslug' - retrieves a thread by its urlslug

• GET '/entryById/:postId' - retrieves a thread by its unique id

• POST '/comment' - posts a comment to a thread

• GET '/new-entry' - form to create a new thread

• POST '/new-entry' - posts a new thread to site and db

• GET '/recent' - lists recent threads

• GET '/update/:postId' - form to update a given thread

• POST '/update' - posts update to a thread

• GET '/data/allposts' - returns data in json format

• GET '/jsontest' - test of remote json data

• GET '/itptweets' - returns most recent tweets about ITP

• GET '/localtweets' - returns most recent tweets in the vicinity of ITP

• GET '/food' - returns 20 closest Yelp results for food

• GET '/drink' - returns 20 closest Yelp results for bars

Running the code

Start the Node server in Terminal (from within the directory):

foreman start

Otherwise, run after pushing to Heroku.

git add .
git commit -am "commit details"
git push heroku master