🐉 DragonBoard-Backend 🐲

An open source clone of geckoboard. Interested in contributing? Take a look at the project page and issues page for outstanding issues.

Contributing to DragonBoard

Please read the contribution guidelines

Set up Development Environment with Homebrew

$ brew update

Install Yarn 🐈

$ brew install yarn

Install Mongo

$ brew install mongodb
$ brew services start mongodb

Create db directory

$ sudo mkdir -p /data/db

Set permissions for /data/db

$ sudo chown -R `id -un` /data/db

Run mongo daemon 😈

$ mongod

In another terminal window, create the db

$ mongo
$ use lizardboard

Create a .env file in the root of the cloned repo and add

MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost/lizardboard
SECRET='Put Your Secret Here'

Install all the things

$ yarn

Start the server! 🎉 🎉 🎉 !!!

$ yarn start

Seed the database

$ yarn seed

Technical Stack

Back End

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Passport
• Passport-local

Database

• Mongodb
• Mongoose

Front End

• React

Testing

• Mocha