#Overview

Sojobs scans the jobs from the monthly hacker news "who is hiring" thread and loads them into a database, and makes them available for searching, by city, key word, visa or remote option. See https://sojobs.me

#Prerequesites

• install node 4.x+, npm and grunt
• install a recent version of postgres. This app use full text search and point data types that are specific to postgres
• install the lb-ng loopback utility described in https://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/AngularJS+JavaScript+SDK#AngularJSJavaScriptSDK-lb-ngcommand

#Configuration

• git clone http://github.com/drorm/sojobs
• for each of the following copy the config files and adjust the credentials, email addresses, server names, etc
  • cp server/config.sample.json server/config.json
    • host
    • port
  • cp server/sparrowConfig.sample.js server/sparrowConfig.js
    • initAdmin -- this is the admin of the app.
      • email
      • password
      • first
      • last
    • emailFrom -- which user are notifications like email verification are coming from
  • cp server/datasources.local.sample.js server/datasources.local.js
    • db -- database credentials
    • mail/smtp -- for email verification when users sign up

#Build

• cd jobs
• npm install
• grunt. This will also do the following:
  • cd client
    • npm install
    • grunt
• If you're going to make changes to the client javascript, you should run the following so it builds the concatenated file
  • grunt watch

#Db setup

• psql jobs jobs < server/db/schema.sql
• psql jobs jobs < server/db/cities.sql

Other

• set up Google places for the auto complete: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials
• SSL cert via let's encrypt https://github.com/Daplie/node-letsencrypt

#Run

##Run directly

• node server/fetchData/fetch.js -- fetches the jobs listings from Hacker News
• node server/server.js -- this is the main node/express/loopback.js app

##Use pm2 Use the pm2 process manager, http://pm2.keymetrics.io/

• run node_modules/.bin/pm2 start ecosystem.json
• logs go into ~/.pm2/logs

This will start two apps:

• server/server.js -- this is the main node/express/loopback.js app
• server/fetchData/fetch.js -- fetches the jobs listings from Hacker News