Node REST
Quick setup REST server with admin interface for more intuitive data manipulation.
Get it as a node module npm install mean-street
You may have to bower_install inside app/
=OR=
Make sure to run npm install to get all the dependencies.
Make sure you run bower install inside of the /app folder
Run npm start [, --port=3000, --secret=MadeUpSecretKeyGoesHere --database=``{"name": "myNewTestDatabaseName"}``, --env=dev, ] and the server is set up!
Notice the = between flags ( for when running with npm ).
For more available flags check config/config.json for the flags parameter
To setup admin, go to /signup. Signup with your custom username / password then edit the
entry to have "admin" : true for admin privileges
View a list of available api endpoints View a list of available CRUD endpoints
Search
This search uses solr. To run Solr
bin/solr start ( you may need to chmod 775 bin/solr ) and run it via ./solr start
bin/solr create -c <coreName>`` ( if this does not work than try ``./solr create -c <coreName>
Troubleshooting
Make sure to have mongo running
@TODO
- Breakout functionality from Server.js
- move /lib/*.js files to a better place
- Front End
- Authentication
- Password hashing
- Register / Sign up
- Module loader
- Auto loader
- Form render from Schema
- Dynamic routes
- View Templates
- Server prototype type instantiation for quick deploy `new Server({ port: 3001 });
- implement /schema/:model route to dynamically get a models schema
- Ability to pass express object to extend existing projects
- Argv to accept custom schema / model paths outside of node module
- Update user password
- Update Role from admin area
- Integrate search w/ setup guide