bitcentive

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About

Bitcentive uses DoneJS and Feathers, two open source web frameworks for building modern real-time applications.

Getting Started

Getting up and running is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Make sure you have NodeJS, npm and MongoDb installed.

Installing MongoDB on OSX

On a Mac, the easiest way to install and configure MongoDB is using the brew utility:

brew install mongodb

Pay special attention to the end of the brew command's output, which includes instructions on how to start mongodb:

To have launchd start mongodb now and restart at login: brew services start mongodb Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

We recommend the brew services option. If desired, mongodb can be stopped and uninstalled by running:

brew uninstall mongodb

2. Install your dependencies

   cd path/to/bitcentive; npm install
   

3. Start your app

   npm run develop
   

Migrations

Please read the migration docs.

Testing

Simply run npm test and all your tests in the test/ directory will be run.

Scaffolding

Feathers has a powerful command line interface. Here are a few things it can do:

$ npm install -g feathers-cli             # Install Feathers CLI

$ feathers generate service               # Generate a new Service
$ feathers generate hook                  # Generate a new Hook
$ feathers generate model                 # Generate a new Model
$ feathers help                           # Show all commands

Logging in with GitHub

The bitcentive demo app allows Authenticated login using GitHubs OAuth api.

When you run your demo locally, there are some steps you are going to need to take, so that you can log in to the app using your github account.

1. Register your application on GitHub

Go to the GitHub application registration form and fill out the form.

You can fill out every piece of information however you like, except the Authorization callback URL. This is easily the most important piece to setting up your application. It's the callback URL that GitHub returns the user to after successful authentication. Assuming you are using all the config from the repo unchanged, you should set this to http://localhost:3030/auth/github/callback.

2. Configure your Client ID and Client Secret

After registering your application with GitHub, you will be provided a Client ID and a Client Secret token. You will need to set these values in your configuration for your app to work properly.

Open the json file at /config/default.json and find the github.clientID property and put your Client ID as the value there.

The GitHub Client Secret you want to be a little more careful with, and it should never be committed to the repo or published anywhere else.

You have two options for setting your Client Secret, you can:

1. set an Environment Variable called GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET on your system with a value equal to your system
2. You can add a local.json file to the config directory in the project, and put some content like this in there:

{
  "auth": {
    "github": {
      "clientSecret": "REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET"
    }
  }
}

This file is ignored by git (.gitignore), and will not be commited to the repo, but will be read by the app when running locally.

With one of these two options in place you should now be able to "Login with Github" in the app.

Secrets and Environment Variables

We must not commit our secrets to our repository, so to store our secrets we use either Environment Variables or a "git ignored" local config file at config/local.json.

For deployments or if you prefer for development you can just set the value of the Environment Variables GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET and FEATHERS_AUTH_SECRET to the client secret provided by GitHub and your particular feathers secret respectively.

Alternatively create a local.json file and stick it in the root config directory and any values here will override the corresponding values in the configuration as per feathers-configuration.

Help

For more information on all the things you can do with Feathers visit docs.feathersjs.com.

Changelog

0.1.0

• Initial release

License

Copyright (c) 2016

Licensed under the MIT license.