This the web portion of the Tech Team project for 2015-2016.
Make sure you have NodeJS installed on your machine. You will also need to have NPM installed.
Fork this project to your own Github account. Then follow the steps below, replacing username with your own username.
git clone https://github.com/username/FitnessTrackerWeb.git
cd FitnessTrackerWeb
git remote add upstream https://github.com/IllinoisWCS/FitnessTrackerWeb.git
npm install
All dependencies will be installed. We will be using Express, which is based on NodeJS.
You'll mostly be working with the templates directory, js and css, all within the client directory. Each of you will be working on a certain view, so you'll need to create a new template, as well as new scripts and CSS files.
We suggest the following workflow:
- Create a new html file within the templates directory.
- Copy index.html into this new html file.
- If you have styling specific to your layout, create a new CSS file in the css folder.
- Add a link to this CSS to your template only.
- If you have scripting specific to your layout, create a new JS file in the js folder.
- Add a link to this JS to your template only.
- Add a new route to the routes.js file. Copy the first example and append to the file. Make sure to append your example before the line that says
module exports = router;.
cd FitnessTrackerWeb
node server.js
Go to the web browser of your choice and type in the URL bar: http://localhost:3000.
Our data is stored in Firebase, which you can read more about at http://firebase.com.
We are just going to be using Bootstrap to make things pretty, JQuery to make our lives easier with Javascript, the Firebase Javascript API.
Make sure to do the following before you make a pull request. This will make merging pull requests so much easier.
cd FitnessTrackerWeb
git add .
git commit -m "any changes you've made locally"
git push
git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git merge upstream/master
Then make your pull request.