# aGroup ## A meta-groupware platform assisting people with technology

aGroup is a demo/research project I did to play around with Node.js and Angular.

So it is a "complete" MEAN stack project (Backend + Frontend) I built from scratch (an empty dir :) to see how it is to put a complete web app live using this technology.

You can chekout a live demo on Heroku here.

Note: If it is dead, please drop me a line, probably Heroku dynos are sleeping for too long and need a restart.

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What it does

It has very basic functions, but allow anyone to see how the basic things work in the MEAN Javascript full stack, from the Back to the Frontend:

• Sing up as a new user
• Log in and manage your "profile"
• A sort of "events" CRUD
• Mails the event owner, when somebody post a new thing on it

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What it uses

The app plays around with some web app important concepts:

• Routing in the Backend (using Express)
• EJS templates and partials
• Basic authentication and authorization
• Single page app in the Frontend (using Angular routes)
• Controllers and forms (even with some fancy validations in the sign up form ;-)
• Angular services, resources, directives, etc.
• Storing data in a MongoDB (Parse.com)

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Installation / Usage

If you do want to download and install it to tinker and mess around just go:

git clone https://bachagas@bitbucket.org/bachagas/agroup.git
cd agroup
npm install
node server.js

And everything has worked if you can go to http://localhost:3030 and the app is up and alive ;-)