Wintercraft

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This application is built to help individuals more accurately gauge when their ice lantern has completed

What it does

• User signs in, says where they are, the weight or diameter of their globe and starts the timer
• OPTIONS:
  • User can add different locations, stored as their locations
  • User can determine desired end thickness
  • User can toggle notification method (text, email, alert)

Things that need to be done! (From Highest to lowest priority)

~~~~ Steps ~~~~

1. find weather api that has geolocator * wunderground??
2. Hook up api
3. Enable ability to store previous locations
4. Create form for options input
5. Create algorithm that predicts end time
6. Determine how to notify user

Architecture

Scaffolding: Yeoman Angular FullStack Generator To make additions to the architecture, it would be advisable to use their cli generation tools. They are consistent and helpful

License:

COPYFARLEFT PUBLIC LICENSE. This is a form of Peer Production License

Production:

Dev:

Front-end: http://localhost:9000

Deployment && Hosting

For now I will have full control over the deployment process grunt build grunt buildcontrol:heroku (the site is hosted via heroku and uses the mongohq add-on)

Dev Environment Setup

Backend

1. Install XCode and/or the command line tools: https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
2. Install homebrew: http://brew.sh/
3. Install node.js: with nvm or without 3.b. Install Grunt: npm install -g grunt-cli
4. Install MongoDB and Mongoose:
5. Install npm
6. Install bower: npm install -g bower
7. Clone the project git clone https://github.com/gemfarmer/mpls-community-houses.git
8. cd mpls-community-houses && npm install
9. bower install
10. Open up new terminal window, then, in same directory sudo mongod and enter credentials
11. Open an additional window and mongo to set up MongoDB locally
12. grunt serve to start server

Client

• Dependencies: Bower
• Tasks: Grunt
• Routing: angular-ui-router