Spina.me

Alberto Spina's personal website.

Front End

The project was generated via angular-cli.
Angular 4 is used for the frontend together with Materialize (for CSS and JS Components) and SCSS
A dashboard is in place to allow dynamic editing of the website's contents (e.g. Projects, Contact details)

Back End

The backend and API routes are serviced via nodeJS and expressJS.
The website is currently hosted on a AWS Server
Other npm packages used:

• bcryptjs: Used to securely authenticate users storing encrypted passwords.
• passport: Used together with bcrypt for authentication.
• dotenv: Used to secure environment variables.
• mongoose: Used together with mongoDB.

Database

There is a mongo database accessed via the mongoose npm wrapper.
Access to the database requires both mongo and bcrypt authentication.

Instructions

Deploying

To deploy to the server, ensure you have installed PM2 globally as an executably as an executable to your machine:

npm install pm2 -g

To deploy for the first time (i.e. clone):
NOTE: First remove the source directory from the project root.

pm2 deploy ecosystem.config.js dev setup

For routine deployments (pulls latest sources and restarts the server):

pm2 deploy ecosystem.config.js dev setup

Installing and Running

Project dependencies are managed via NPM, ensure you have installed NPM and node using NVM (Node Version Manager)

Node version used by the project:

node 10.20.1
npm 6.14.4

Ensure you have MongoDB installed. The project uses version 3.6.23

Generate a .env file (in the project root) with the following details (if using default dev setup):

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=27017

Database credentials can be optionally used by setting the DB_USER and DB_PASS in the .env file.

You can now install dependencies:

npm install

To run for local development:

npm run dev