This project is under development, we have no stable release at the moment :)
INOX is a social media plattform in a twitter like style to allow creative and innovative people to exchange their knowledge and get connected. The main ideas are:
- The portal is structured in feeds where users can contribute and talk about innovative topics. [in work]
- User can follow users, get updates and chat [pending]
- Users are able to search for certain topics [pending]
0.0.1
INOX tries to use the current cutting edge technologies in both server and client side aspects.
- RESTful Backend Server with NodeJS
- Document-oriented database using MongoDB
- Reactive Frontend using ReactJS
- ES2015 (ES6) and JSX syntax which is transipiled with BabelJS and SystemJS
- JSPM is used as package manager and to bundle the ES2015 (ES6) Modules
You need a current version of NodeJS to be able to use this project.
As we're using JSPM as package manager you should install jspm globally:
$ npm install jspm -gThen you can install the JSPM dependencies:
$ jspm installFollowing with installing the Node Dependencies:
$ npm installNow you can start the Backend Server which is also serving the client content:
$ node server.jsWe are using the dotenv module to set the environment. Simply create a .env file containing following variables:
- SECRET : Secret for the password encryption (default: enteryoursecrethere)
- DB_URL : Url to the MongoDB instance (default: mongodb://localhost:27017/inox)
- PORT : Port of the backend server (default: 8080)
- EMBEDLY_KEY: API Key for your Embedly Account (default: '')
- IN_PRODMODE: Pages will consume bundled React component. You have to create bundle to be able to use this mode (default: '0');
When you are developing the project it might be useful the create some dummy test-data. We supplied you with a test-data generator:
$ node setupDB.jsHere is an example of the current state of the project. Be aware that I'm not using https at the moment, so please use some kind of dummy password
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