Applicant Tracker

Applicant Tracker is a sample application that you with a working example of a Backbone app using the Kinvey Backbone client library. It demonstrates the use of Backbone Models and Collections with Kinvey, along with relational data, user management, and integration with the Github API. The app is used to track job applicants, pull developer Github profiles, and allow users to record notes on each appliant's profile.

Run It

After downloading or cloning the repository:

• Replace App Key and App Secret (in js/init.js) with your application's credentials.
• Add a user to your Kinvey backend through the web console, and set the permissions for users to "Read Only" (under the Settings page).
• Create an applicants collection and import backend/applicants.json for some sample data to get started with. Make sure to set the permissions to "Full" for this collection as well.
• Copy the contents of backend/applicants-post-fetch.js into the post-fetch custom code for the applicants collection, making sure to add your Github API keys to the top of the file.
• Install the Grunt dependencies:

npm install

• Run the local development environment with Grunt (launches a local server and watches for changes)

grunt

Check it out in action at http://localhost:3000

Functionality

This application demonstrates:

• Basic set-up for Backbone.js apps using Kinvey
• Storing and retrieving data using Backbone Models and Collections
• Managing user sessions, logins, and state
• Connecting to external API's, like Github
• Modeling relational data using the Kinvey library and backbone-associations

Architecture

The starting point of this application is js/init.js. This app uses RequireJS to manage dependencies.

Any applicants with a Github username attached to their record (under the github) property will automatically display that applicant's Github profile. This is done using custom server code - for the exact code, see the backend/applicants-post-fetch.js file.

License

Copyright 2013 Kinvey, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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