NOTE: This repository is deprecated. It was a small side project I worked on in grad school and no longer maintained

Citation Manager

Easily manage citations and quotes in research projects

About

This is the source code accompanying the live app at https://citation-mgr.herokuapp.com/. Think of it as Evernote but for citations and quotes in research projects.

Organization

Backend

The backend code is written in node.js and the main file is server.js. The rest of the code can be found in node-controllers directory. The database is assumed to be postgres, and most of the database schema and connection logic can be found in node-controllers/db-common.js.

Frontend

The frontend is written using Vue.js. Front end routes can be found in server.js. The rest of the frontend code can be found in public/js/vue-components

Run Locally

Create local database fixtures

• Database fixtures will be automatically created when you start the server
  • Edit settings in node-controllers/db-common.js

Get web server locally

• git clone this repo
• cd into the directory where you cloned the repo and run yarn install
• from the same directory, run yarn start
• leave this terminal window running, server is running on port 8080
  • you can set the port using the PORT environment variable

Development

nodemon

Testing

1. Set up the Postgres database locally (unfortunately not mocked out)
2. yarn lint
3. yarn test

Database Setup

See file node-controllers/db-common.js