gitification-server

Gitification's project, server-side implementation. This software is for experimental usage only.

Getting Started

Refer to installation guide on the wiki to the installation procedure.

Once installed, you have two options to run the server

• npm lib/gitification.js
• npm install -g forever and then forever lib/gitification.js

To find more on forever, refer to to its github page

Gamification engine

To find out more on the API scheme we implemented, refer to the apiary documentation.

Our database model can be found on the super project wiki. To create a new engine, follow the guide associated.

Benchmarks and software metrics

Riak and MySQL versions have been created to test their performance. Refer to the analysis on our documentation repository.

We gathered static information about the quality of our server implementation to manage its complexity using plato. Find the results on documentation repository as well.

Technologies

We used several node modules to ease development :

• shortid to generate random id (Github page)
• riak-js to connect and manage riak nosql (Project page)
• restify to create a RESTful API (Project page)
• rewire to use dependency injection (Github page)
• api-easy to test our API (Github page)
• validator to validate input (Github page and Gist for Restify)
• async to manage asynchronous functional mess (Github page)
• mysql to connect and manage MySQL server (Github page)