Co-Compare

Crowd-sourced decision matrices. Check out the deployed goodness: Co-Compare is here!

This README is intended to inform users, help beginner/intermediate devs, and brag to anyone looking to hire me ;)

Usage

Log in via Facebook. Co-Compare will only store your name/ID and nothing else (check source code if you don't believe me).
Create a comparison table by providing subjects (columns) to compare and criteria (rows) to compare them against.

Optional: provide details (cells) to help inform others who view the comparison table.

Copy/paste/share the link generated for your comparison table.
You and the rest of the world can upvote/downvote the various aspects of each subject and the criteria.
You and the rest of the world can make decisions based on the results of votes from you and - as you may have guessed - the rest of the world.

The biggest challenges were learning Sequelize and successfully playing whack-a-mole with deployment issues.

AngularJS: client-side framework
Node.js: server-side app platform
- Express: server-side framework
- Passport: server-side authentication (via Facebook)
- Sequelize: ORM (powerful, but docs could use a buff)
SQL: database (MySQL for dev; PostgreSQL for production)
Moment.js: time/date prettifier
Stylus: CSS pre-processor

(Why do some JS libraries/frameworks end with ".js" while others end with "JS" while others end with no suffix at all?)

dev: media files related to design
models: database setup
public: front-end
- images: icons
- scripts: client app + Angular controllers
- styles: Stylus code and resultant CSS
- views: HTML inserted into index.html by Angular
routes: controllers that interact with the database
config_production.js: references to production environment variables
config_dev.js: (not provided) private, local counterpart to config_production.js
server.js: starts the server

Co-Compare was created by RebootJeff at Hack Reactor.