Hackengarten Messenger

This is a Simple Notification Application built during the AeroGear's Hackergarten in 4 hours (including the NodeJS backend ) !

Authors

• Yacine Rezgui
• Laurent Dollé
• Sébastien Blanc

Used technologies

Client Side

• Ionic
• Cordova
• AeroGear Cordova Push Plugin

Server Side

• AeroGear UnifiedPush Server
• NodeJS
• AeroGear's NodeJS Sender Client
• These 2 components has been deployed on OpenShift using their respective cartdridges

Installation

Server Side

Set up an UnifiedPush Server instance, more info :

• https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-unifiedpush-server
• Deploy it in 2 clicks with OpenShift

Deploy NodeJS Application :

• The backend application just consist of the server/index.js , deploy it where you want, for instance OpenShift also comes with a NodeJS Cartdridge (be sure to uncomment the specific settings in the file for OpenShift).

• Don't forget to point to your UnifiedPush Instance URL and to set the Application ID and the Master Secret

Client side

Clone the repo :

git clone https://github.com/sebastienblanc/hackergarten-messenger

Add platform and plugins :

cd hackergarten-messenger
cordova platform add android
cordova plugin add https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-pushplugin-cordova.git

Change the settings related to the UnifiedPush Server (https://github.com/sebastienblanc/hackergarten-messenger/blob/master/www/js/services.js):

 var pushConfig = {
      senderID: "senderID",
      pushServerURL: "https://hackergartenups-sblanc.rhcloud.com/",
      variantID: "variantID",
      variantSecret: "variantSecret"
  };

Also be sure to point to your NodeJS backend (https://github.com/sebastienblanc/hackergarten-messenger/blob/master/www/js/services.js).

return $http({
      method: 'POST',
      url: 'http://hackernode-sblanc.rhcloud.com/messages',
      data: {
        message: msg
      }
    });

Deploy the app on the device :

cordova run android

TODOs

• Add local persistence using AeroGear's DataManager
• Encrypt the stored messages
• Create backends using other technologies : JEE7 / Grails / Rails / Vert.x