Badge Lab is a simple website that makes it easy for people to experiment with creating "hand-made" badges to learn more about Open Badges.

Quick Start

$ git clone https://github.com/toolness/badgelab.git
$ cd badgelab
$ npm install
$ node app.js

Then visit http://localhost:3000.

Environment Variables

• PORT is the port to serve the website on. Defaults to 3000.

• ORIGIN is the origin that the website is served from. If unspecified, it defaults to http://localhost: followed by the value of PORT.

• MONGO_URL is the MongoDB URL to the MongoDB database to use for persistent storage. The documents contained here will only be stored for a maximum of 1 day via MongoDB's TTL functionality. If unspecified, the website will store all user data in-process.

• MONGOHQ_URL is a synonym for MONGO_URL, useful as a zero-configuration solution if you're hosting the website on Heroku and use the MongoHQ addon.

Prior Work

This website was influenced by the following prior work:

• Billy Meinke's Want to Make Your Own Badges by Hand? blog post.

• Mike Larsson's badgebadger (also see its Github repository).

License

MIT.