Eventox Web App

The repository contains all the code for the web app being developed for eventox.

##Deploying

• Clone the repository.
• In the terminal, run npm install to locally save the required dependencies.
• Start your local mongodb instance.
• start the server by running the command node app.js or nodemon app.js (recommended)

Understanding the code

Models and Views:

• These folders as intuitive, contain the db models and ejs views for the app.
• the user model is specially mapped to passport, and requires extra care.
• ejs files are in factored in folders in views appropriately.
• headers and footers should be added to each new ejs file created. Header contains essential materialize style inclusion.

The public folder:

• contains all the static data.
• note that express does not allow serving static files from outside the public folder.
• use it to keep any scripts, styles or static html pages to be used in the project.

#####app.js

• Contains all the code on server for now (will be refactored soon)
• Dependencies :
  • Express, body-parser: Self Explainatory
  • Mongoose : A library that makes our working with MongoDB easier.
  • passport and related libraries : A library that makes our authentication process much easier
  • ejs : we are be using ejs as the templating engine.
  • nodemailer : a library for sending mails
  • fs : for managing files
  • html-pdf: converts html to pdf, required for rendering pdfs.
  • qrcode: for generating qr codes
• Auth:
  • implemented authorization using facebook and locally
  • used mongoose user models.
  • associated ejs files in views/Auth
• events, blog routes
  • restful routes to create, read, update, delete events.
  • associated ejs files are in views/events and views/blog