The Open Event Web App project has two components a) an event website generator and b) the actual generated website output. The web generator application can generate event websites by getting data from event JSON files and binary media files, that are stored in a compressed zip file. You can also access the application through a REST API. Websites that are generated by the "web app generator" can be uploaded to any web location, e.g. on Github pages or any server (e.g. via ftp).
Please join our mailing list to discuss questions regarding the project: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/open-event
Our chat channel is on gitter here: https://gitter.im/fossasia/open-event-webapp
The component that is generated from the web app is the event website. Several sample event sites using the sample from the open-event repo were generated, showcased on the main index page and added to this repo as a Github Pages site. You can have a look at showcase page on http://fossasia.github.io/open-event-webapp/ We also have a custom domain at http://sched.eventyay.com to which the former link is redirected.
The webapp generator uses the following technologies -
- HTML/CSS/Javascript based frontend
- SASS - SASS to write optimized CSS.
- Node.js - Javascript for the generator backend
- Express.js - Server framework
- Handelbars - Template for rendering
- Socket.io - For handling multi-user client, with progress of upload/generation
- WebdriverJs - Official Javascript Implementation of Selenium for testing generated event websites
- Webform
The source of the webform can be found here. It consists of -
- index.html - The webform page
- form.js - The script that uploads the zips, and starts the generator process
- Generator
The generator runs on a ExpressJS server, using this main app script.
- Scripts
- generator.js - Does the main generation tasks, and controls other scripts
- fold.js - Groups data of sessions, speakers, tracks etc from JSONs
- dist.js - Creates folders, cleans folders, unzips/zips packages
- ftpdeploy.js - Deploys finished website to organiser's server (optional)
- mailer.js - Sends mail to organiser notifying of successful creation
- buildlogger.js - Displays build logs while generating webapp
- deploy.js - Automatically deploys generated event sites to user's github account
- gulpfile.js - Creates minified js and css for generated webapp
- Templates
The HTML pages of the generated website are created using Handelbars templates. You can find all the templates here -
- footer.hbs : Common template for footer on all pages
- navbar.hbs : Common template for navbar on all pages
- event.hbs : index.html - Home page
- rooms.hbs : rooms.html - Venues page
- schedule.hbs : tracks.html - Tracks page
- speakers.hbs : speakers.html - Speakers page
- session.hbs : session_id.html - Individual Session page having a particular id
- Selenium
Contains scripts related to testing different pages of the generated website.
- basePage.js - Contains methods common to all the pages of the event site
- eventPage.js - Contains methods for testing of the index page of the event
- trackPage.js - Contains methods for testing of the tracks page of the event
- Overview Site
Contains thumbnail images of sample events and main index.html file required for the showcase site
You can try out the web generator at https://opev-webgen.herokuapp.com
The development version is available here: https://opev-webgen-dev.herokuapp.com
You can use one of the event sample zip files here: https://github.com/fossasia/open-event/tree/master/sample
Please check out the documentation here.
Please check out the documentation here.
To install the system on Google Cloud please refer to the Google Cloud installation readme.
To install the system on AWS please refer to the AWS installation readme.
To install the system on Digital Ocean please refer to the Digital Ocean installation readme.
Please read how to deploy to Heroku here
Or use the 1-click deployment button
- Once deployed, you'll find the generator running on http://localhost:5000, it should look like this
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Add your email id, select session style (single page for each session or expandable sessions),
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Then upload the zip file that contains all JSON files for speakers, sessions, sponsors, event, tracks and locations (These you should get from an orga-server or through the API after you have created your event there).
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Now, when you click on GENERATE APP and DOWNLOAD button, you'll get to download a zip of the event website. You can also deploy the web site to your Github Pages by clicking on DEPLOY button.
POST /generate
Parameters (x-www-form-urlencoded) or json
| Parameter | Description | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| name | (required) Name of the webapp | Unique name of the webapp |
| (required) Your email id | We will send a email to this when your webapp is ready | |
| datasource | (required) Either jsonupload or eventapi |
|
| apiendpoint | (if datasource = eventapi) API endpoint url |
All configurations are saved in the config.js file.
NOTE: In this document all config.<obj> variables refer to the data in the config.json file.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
process.env.PORT |
(Can be described in shell env, or in Heroku type platforms) |
config.PORT |
(Falls back to config file if above not found) |
We use Sendgrid to send mails, and you need a Sendgrid API to make it work. Additionally, you can also use SMTP to send mails if you don't have Sendgrid Key.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.SENDGRID_API_KEY |
(Falls back to config file) |
process.env.SMTP_USERNAME |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.SMTP_USERNAME |
(Falls back to config file) |
process.env.SMTP_PASSWORD |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.SMTP_PASSWORD |
(Falls back to config file) |
We use AWS S3 services for storing the zip file of the generated event. These zip files are automatically deleted after 3 days from the store. Each
uploaded file has a unique download link. node-uuid module is used for generating the cryptic download link of the file.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
process.env.AWS_BUCKET |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.AWS_BUCKET |
(Falls back to config file) |
process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID |
(Falls back to config file) |
process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY |
(Falls back to config file) |
The web-app is able to automatically deploy the generated event sites to Github Pages of a User. We use passport library for authentication of
the user. For uploading and committing the event files, we use github library which provides a wrapper for the Github API in node.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
process.env.GITHUB_CLIENT_ID |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.GITHUB_CLIENT_ID |
(Falls back to config file) |
process.env.GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET |
(Falls back to config file) |
process.env.CALLBACK_URL |
(Tries to get from shell env first) |
config.CALLBACK_URL |
(Falls back to config file) |
We need to process all the speaker images and there are certain configs used -
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
config.speaker_images.MAX_WIDTH |
(Max needed height of speaker image) |
config.speaker_images.MAX_HEIGHT |
(Max needed width of speaker image) |
config.speaker_images.TRACK_HEIGHT_REM |
(Speaker image height, in CSS rem units, for tracks page) |
config.speaker_images.TRACK_WIDTH_REM |
(Speaker image width, in CSS rem units, for tracks page) |
Some sessions can have a recorded audio attached to them. The parameters for that are
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
config.audio_files.MAX_SIZE_MB |
Max size of the audio (limited by Github file size) |
This is an Open Source project and we would be happy to see contributors who report bugs and file feature requests submitting pull requests as well. Please report issues here https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-webapp/issues
Before making a pull request, please file an issue. So, other developers have the chance to give feedback or discuss details. Match every pull request with an issue please and add the issue number in description e.g. like "Fixes #123".
We have the following branches
- development
All development goes on in this branch. If you're making a contribution, you are supposed to make a pull request to development. PRs to master must pass a build check and a unit-test (test/serverTest.js) check on Travis - master
This contains shipped code. After significant features/bugfixes are accumulated on development, we make a version update, and make a release.
OpenEvent Webapp - A webapp and it's generator, written under the FOSSASIA Open Event project. The Open Event project aims to make server and client software required for hosting events/conferences easy to build and configure. Copyright (C) 2016, FOSSASIA. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
The project is maintained by
- Arnav Gupta (@championswimmer)
- Aayush Arora (@aayusharora)
- Mario Behling (@mariobehling)
- Justin Lee (@juslee)