Portamento

a synthesizer & sequencer social sharing site.

This repo contains the source files for the back end and the bundled front end for the Portamento web app.
The sister repo, with the front end source files, lives at this url: https://github.com/Portamento-development/portamento-app

This is a Code Fellows Full Stack Javascript Bootcamp Project to create a browser-based synthesizer and sequencer with social sharing of synthesizer settings and ability to favorite patches and follow users.
Synth is the home page and displays the synthesizer and sequencer
User Profile displays:
- patches created by the user
- patches favorited by the user
- other users followed by the user
Sign in/Sign up authentication
- uses tokens for authentication
- stores tokens in localStorage

Set up a portamento project directory that contains a directory for the front end and another directory for the back end:
- portamento
  - portamento-app
  - portamento-server
Download the repos
Get MongoDB running on your machine or use mLab (or something similar) to host a mongoDB database
1 - start the back end
- Open another terminal window, navigate to the app folder and at the CLI type:
```
npm start
```
2 - start the front end (for local editing and testing)
- Open another terminal window, navigate to the app folder and at the CLI type:
```
npm start
```
3 - Then open a browser window and navigate to the address localhost:8080
Please refer to the app/package.json for info about app scripts
Please refer to the server/package.json for info about server scripts

Set Up
- Make sure you have the app, server and database running per "Directions to run locally"
To run back end tests, when in portamento-app directory at cli type:
```
npm test
```
- this will first run eslint - for more info look at .eslintrc
- then karma uses mocha to run Angular unit tests