Mdk-Boss

The Boss app will be responsible to make you efficient moving around the museum tracking your time and pointing you how much money are you wasting. The Boss Node app be responsible to get the Card id and location from mdk-police devices.

Mdk Time tracking architecture

![MDK Time Tracking architecture] (https://github.com/colektivo/mdk-employee/blob/master/docs/infographic/infographic.001.jpg?raw=true "MDK Time Tracking architecture")

The other apps

[mdk-police] (https://github.com/colektivo/mdk-police "App responsible to capture all the USB readers input")
[mdk-employee] (https://github.com/colektivo/mdk-employee "App responsible to show the time tracking information on a touch screen")

Requirements

node.js v0.8 or later libudev-dev (Linux only) libusb-1.0-0-dev (Ubuntu versions missing libusb.h only) git npm posgresql

Installing on ubuntu

Due that the computer to be installed is not powerful enough to run everything on a VM the configuration was not automated with docker or vagrant.

git clone https://github.com/colektivo/mdk-boss.git

# node and dependencies
sudo apt-get install node
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install libudev-dev
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev
sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
sudo apt-get install libpq
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

# posgresql
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo apt-get install postgresql-client

database setup

You will need to create one database per environment that you want to be able to use, if you want to use it just for production you need only production database.

boss_development
boss_test
boss_production

Note: you can use any name for the db but remember these names should match the configuration file bellow.

configuration

There is 1 configuration files: /config/config.json for the database, a sample file is provided as config.samle. Update the parameters according to your db configuration and save as config.json.

Create the required tables

From the root of your mdk-boss

node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:migrate
node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:seed

after that your db is ready to start, next step configure your app so the app knows where to find the database.

Note: if you don't specify any environment the default environment is development and the db used will be boss_development.

If you want to use production you should initialize the db like:

NODE_ENV=production node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:migrate
NODE_ENV=production node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:seed

Starting the Boss

npm install

npm start

TO DO

add stats panel
namespacing avoiding globals in some cases
code review by someone with node experience ;-)