Chat - node.js

This is a full stack chat app built with the following:

• node.js
• express.js
• socket.io
• react
• flux
• lesscss
• mongo

It's just an example app we used to learn.

Dev

Setup

Step 1. Download and install node.js

Step 2. Download mongo from mongodb.org, then run:

tar -zxvf [dir]
mkdir -p /usr/local/mongodb
cp -R -n [dir] /usr/local/mongodb
vi ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=/usr/local/mongodb/bin:$PATH

Step 3. Install all project node modules:

npm install

Start

mongod
gulp reset-db
[New Window] gulp watch
[New Window] npm run-script debug

Test

npm test

The app includes fixtures for these users:

• email: user1@example.com password: password
• email: user2@example.com password: password
• email: user3@example.com password: password

Prod

Setup

Step 1. Install MongoDB (http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/)

$ echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu "$(lsb_release -sc)"/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10

Step 2. Install other deps

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
$ sudo curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
$ sudo npm install --global gulp
$ sudo npm install --global naught
$ sudo apt-get install git git-core

Step 3. Config git

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "youremail@example.com"

Step 4. Setup nginx by copying the nginx configs from dist/*

If by running sudo the terminal throws "sudo unable to resolve host" grab the host name shown in the error and edit /etc/hosts. Put it there like this: 127.0.1.1 ip-172-30-0-136, where ip-172-30-0-136 is the host that can't be resolved.

Deploy

Step 1. Run the deploy for the first time

$ gulp deploy

Step 2. Setup Naught

Since naught hasn't been started yet we need to create a symlink for bin/www so naught can execute it outside the project code dir.

$ ln -s /var/www/chat-nodejs/releases/LATEST_RELEASE_DIR/bin/www /var/www/chat-nodejs/www
$ cd /var/www/chat-nodejs
$ sudo NODE_ENV=prod naught start --cwd ./releases/LATEST_RELEASE_DIR/bin/ www

Step 3. Replace LATEST_RELEASE_DIR for the name of the dir with the latest release. For further deployments, gulp deploy command will take care of updating naught for the latest code.

To kill the node process id on port 3000 $ sudo kill 'sudo lsof -t -i:3000'