MeanListApp

Socially authenticated List app, built on the MEAN stack

This app was started as an excercise in learning the MEAN stack - Mongo, Express, Angular and Node. Most example applications dealt with only a single function or controller, so here is an example bringing together multiple components into a useable product.

Features

The target features of MeanListApp are:

1. User authentication via
   • Local accounts with username and password
     With client-side password encryption and no clear-text password storage.
   • A password reset function will also be required, potentially using emails with a single use reset token (planned)
   • Twitter authentication (planned)
   • Facebook authentication (planned)
   • Optionally combining multiple authentication methods for a single account (planned)
2. Separation of front-end application code and back-end code
   • Front-end Web application should be completely separate from back-end
   • Front-end communicates through API calls
3. Custom List creation and management
   • A list will have an owner, a name a collection of items and a privacy level. Each item will have a name, description and complete status. Other metadata, such as created and modified dates will also be stored.
   • On-boarding process to create a first list and first item.
   • List can be renamed
   • Lists will have permanent URL, perhaps using Mongo's _id, otherwise generating a separate unique identifier
4. List can be public, read-only or private?
   • Public
     List can be viewed and items can be edited by anyone
   • Shared
     List can be viewed and items can be completed by anyone
   • Published
     List can be viewed by anyone
   • Private
     List can only be accessed by the owner

Learning

Through this program, the tools I am using and learning are:

• Nodejs
• Express
• Jade Templates
• Mongo
• Angular
• Bootstrap
• Visual Studio Code
• Git
• GitHub