qwook / cmpe172-webapp

Spartan Market

Individual Contributions

• Troy Nguyen - Server / REST API
• Henry Tran - Client / React / Gruntfile
• Dustin Phou - Database / ORM2

Stack:

• Grunt
• React / Babel / Webpack
• Node ORM2 / MongoDB
• Express

Stack Reasoning

• Grunt - "Taskrunner" which acts like a "Makefile" and runs a collection of commands for us.
• React - Front-end framework that lets us create different views in a way that is * object-oriented.
• Babel - React uses non-standard syntax and so it needs to be compiled. Babel compiles React syntax into a syntax a Javascript engine could recognize.
• Webpack - Takes all the client-side javascript files and bundles them into a single file.
• ORM2 - Wraps querying the MongoDB into an objected oriented interface.
• MongoDB - Database
• ExpressJS - Hosting the website, serving static files, and providing REST API

Running the Server

Prereqs

Node, NPM, MongoDB, Grunt installed.
npm install -g grunt <- to install grunt

Installing

npm install . mkdir db <- Make sure to delete this directory when pushing to github.

Running

grunt
and on a seperate terminal...
mongodb --dbpath db

Structure

server/api.js

Implements all the REST api calls

client/vendors.js

Used for caching library files for fast compilation using Babel.

client/*.js

React Views

CMPE 172

We’re going to build a web application using javascript/node.js on client side and any web programming languages (such as Ruby/Rails, Java/Scala, Python and node.js) on server side. The server-side program should provide for itself such functions as transaction processing, database connectivity, and/or messaging. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-hosting infrastructure for project development is optional and deploy it on heroku is mandatory.

Note: Chat application is just an example please don’t use this as a project topic

#Our Requirements

Let’s define some basic requirements for building a web application server on AWS:

• You will develop on a SSH/HTTP/HTTPs-accessible EC2 machine eligible for/compatible with the "AWS Free Usage Tier" (Links to an external site.).
• Runs on Amazon Linux (the Amazon Linux images seem to be better optimized for EC2)
• Install the required libraries on EC2 (depends on which programming language you have chosen)
• Use Git-based deployment of our code to AWS
• Implement a webserver with ORM application with reasonable level of functionality across all devices (a responsive framework like Bootstrap will help you build mobile-friendly feature set).
• Deploy the application on Heroku

#Additional Requirement

You should use at least one other frameworks (e.g; HTML 5 presentation system (reveal.js)) discussed in class in conjunction with basic requirements described above.