livedb-rethinkdb Examples

These are a few simple examples of how to run ShareJS with RethinkDB as your database. These examples depend on LiveDB-RethinkDB instead of the default LiveDB-mongo.

Setup and Run

1. Install Node.js

Mac

If you don’t have Node.js installed and you’re on a mac, use brew to install it.

brew update 
brew install node

2. Install RethinkDB

RethinkDB official installation instructions

Mac

If you’re on a mac, use brew to install it:

brew update
brew install rethinkdb

Once installed, go ahead and run RethinkDB:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.rethinkdb.plist

If you want to launch RethinkDB on login, run the following code:

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/rethinkdb/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Testing

To see if works, go to http://localhost:8080 and see if you get the data explorer.

3. Clone git repository

Clone the git repository from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/thejsj/sharejs-rethinkdb-example.git
cd sharejs-rethinkdb-example

4. Install npm depedencies

npm install

5. Install client dependencies with bower

npm install -g bower
bower install

6. Run the server

To run the development server, run the following:

npm run dev

To run the normal server, run the following:

npm start