Thought Wall is a nearly useless application created mainly as playground for Angular 2.
- A public wall where a list of messages are rendered.
- Only registered users can publish new messages.
- On Registration users receive a welcome email.
On its current state the app is far from perfect. Front end glitches are likely to found and the practices in the code are unlikley considered universally best. But it's my intention to continue improving this project and using it as an experimental seed.
Webpack is used for processing and bundling the Typescript files. So far, none of the other assets are pre-processed.
Mailgun API is consumed in order to dispatch emails from the application, so an API KEY for this service will be required. Probably the most annoying part of setting up.
The project uses nedb for in-memory storage. This could be a bit annoying depending on your development process. Yet this shouldn't be a problem for a server that won't be constantly reset.
Lastly the backend is a prett straight forward Node and Express web API.
It all starts by cloning this repository. I'd recommend the following sections are followed, dealt with, in order.
APP_SECRET_HASH This can be set to any string, actually. This is used as the secret for hashing the session.
The rest are very specific mailgun keys.
MAILGUN_DOMAIN
MAILGUN_PUBLIC_KEY
MAILGUN_SECRET_KEY
Needless to say the app support loading these variables from a .env file, this makes it easier to deal with.
npm install should be more than enough.
webpack or webpack --watch when actively developing.
The backend is tested to a great extend since it was done mostly test driven. Running the specs in this stage would most certainly give you a good idea if everything is ready to be started.
npm test is enough to run all specs.
npm start