This is all the code behind [betherenyc.com] (http://betherenyc.herokuapp.com) This web app shows you events that are happening here and now, in NYC. Currently I am pulling data from nycgovparks.org feed. Users can add events.

The app is written in NodeJS, uses MongoDb, is built for Heroku, and uses following dependencies:

• express: 2.5.6 - for server setup
• ejs : latest - for templating
• mongoose : 2.5.6 - for database modeling and queries
• request : 2.9.153 - for HTTP request method
• xml2js - for converting xml to js objects
• connect-mongodb - for connecting to mongodb
• bcrypt : 0.4.1 - for password hashing
• passport: 0.1.7 - for user auth
• passport-local: 0.1.2
• knox : 0.0.9 - Node Amazon S3 Client
• jsdom: 0.2.14 - A javascript implementation of the W3C DOM.
• moment: 1.5.0 - a javascript data library

On the Heroku side, you need the following add-ons:

• MongoLab
• Heroku Scheduler

On the front-end:

• HTML 5, CSS3, jQuery, Google Maps API, Google geocoder, momentjs, FourSquare API

Getting Setup

##Set up file structure and Heroku App

In your terminal, clone this repo

git clone git@github.com:michelleboisson/betherenyc.git

If you haven't already, create a new app on Heroku (cedar), this will add an additional remote GIT path to Heroku. (Assumes you have Heroku Toolbelt installed)

heroku create --stack cedar

Set up MongoDB and .env

Add free MongoLab account add-on for your MongoDB

heroku addons:add mongolab:starter

Heroku and MongoLab have provided a mongodb:// connection string in your Heroku config. This is your "username and password" to get access. We can keep the connection string out of the code and private by putting it inside a .env environment variable file.

Get your connection URI

heroku config | grep MONGOLAB_URI

Copy the Mongo URI connection string starting from mongodb:// to the end, will look like

mongodb://heroku_randomapp:hashedpassword@subdomain.mongolab.com:port/heroku_randomapp

Add local config variable for MongoLab

echo MONGOLAB_URI=mongodb://heroku_randomapp:hashedpassword@subdomain.mongolab.com:port/heroku_randomapp >> .env

Get the party started

Install Node Modules

npm install

Run locally

foreman start web

Visit on your browser at http://localhost:5000

Run on Heroku

Commit all changes

git commit -am "my commit message"

Push to Heroku

git push heroku master

Run a one-off script

Sample One Off Script runFunc.js

This file helped me do some editing on database entries as a one-off script locally or on heroku.

Heroku docs on One-Off Processes https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/oneoff-admin-ps

To Use:

1. update Procfile - add following line to existing file

   mytask: node runFunc.js

2. To run locally

   foreman start mytask

3. Execute from Heroku (must be commited and pushed to Heroku first)

   heroku run mytask

Heroku Scheduler

I'm using a Heroku scheduler to automatically get new events from nycgovparks.org every day. Install the scheduler from Heroku by typing this in your terminal.

heroku addons:add scheduler:standard

Then in the Procfile you will see:

getNewData : node getNewData.js

Here's more infor on the scheduler: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/scheduler