/eventful

app that manages events happening on Turner campuses

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Eventful

Eventful is a reference application that illustrates some best practices and patterns for node/express web development. Go read the annotated source.

Concepts demonstrated:

  • The basics (node, express, jade)
  • 2 different ways to create models for mongo data (mongoose and mongo driver)
  • routing and controller organization
  • socket.io
  • authentication
  • how to properly seed a database
  • using redis
  • using twilio to respond to sms messages
  • using groc to create readable documentation based on source comments