##mlb-db mlb-db is a web app for accessing Major League Baseball (MLB) team and player profiles and statistics.
Uses Sean Lahman Baseball Database. The latest version of this database has stats from 1871 - 2013.

• Built with Bootstrap 3/Node.js/MongoDB

• Design leveraged from architecture and components in Single Page Web Applications

• See what the app looks like mlb-db

##Design Architecture

###Front End

1. UI - Bootstrap 3

2. Namespacing - Single global: spa

3. Modules

• spa.shell.js - controller/router , initializes all modules
• spa.player.js - model and view for player list, player profiles and player stats
• spa.team.js - model and view for team list, team profiles and team stats
• spa.autoc_search.js - model and view for auto-complete search (for desktop)
• spa.search.js - model and view for search feature (for phones & tablets)
• spa.pagination.js - pagination for player and team list views

Templates

• Handlebars.js is used for templating. Templates are in separate files
  loaded at startup, compiled and stored and cached.

####MVC architecture
This design doesn't implement separate model/view functionality but does feature
a controller/router module.(spa.shell.js)

• Initializes all modules Handles URI hashchange events triggered by model/view modules to
  trigger DB requests

• All views (player list, team list etc.) are bookmarkable.

####Other Features:

• auto-complete search
• pagination support using jquery.jqpagination jQuery plugin

###Back End

Node 0.10.x/Express 3.2.x MongoDB 2.6.x/mongodb Native driver 1.3.x

• mongoimport used to import csv database files to collections
• Uses mongodb aggregation framework for some queries (ex. player career stats)

Performance Tuning

1. Indexes are created on several mongoDB collections (db-config.js)
2. Use res.setHeader('Cache-Control', 'public, max-age=xxxx');
   to cache static files and database responses.

###Cloud Hosting

Heroku & mongolab