sngpranay / watchtower

A tool for Syn Biologists

Watchtower

A Workflow Management Tool for Synthetic Biologists

Setting up the environment

NodeJS

1. Install the Node.JS binaries or the installer.
2. If the install was successful the Node.JS CLI should be available to you. Check by firing up the terminal node --version should give the installed version.
3. If the install was successful you should now have the npm which is Node's package manager. npm --version should confirm this.
4. Clone this repo git clone https://github.com/sngpranay/Watchtower.git
5. Navigate to the Watchtower folder in the terminal and type in npm install
6. This should install all the depencies required to run the application.
7. There should now be a node_modules folder in your root directory.
8. You will also need to generate your github API Auth token.
9. In Watchtower/config/Repo.js and Watchtower/config/git_add.js make the changes listed in the comments (Your Github account info + Auth token).

Mongodb

1. Install MongodB as instructed here.
2. To test type in mongod in your console.
3. This will application will be using two collections Users and Projects.

Run !

1. If all the steps were successful you should now be able to launch the application.
2. In the root directory type in mongod and in another terminal window type in node app.js from the root directory , fire up a browser and hit http://localhost:3000/
3. You should see the Watchtower homepage.