xingwall
Amazing Wall of Xing members logged in to a service.
This is currently work in progress!
Prerequisites
MongoDB
Mac OS X
$ brew install mongodb
$ mongod
Node
Mac OS X
$ brew install node
xing-api-nodejs
The current work-in-progress state makes use of xing-api-nodejs. As long as this is also work-in-progress and not pushed to npm, you need to install it manually
$ git clone https://github.com/volkert/xing-api-nodejs
$ cd xing-api-nodejs
$ npm link
Installation
$ git clone https://github.com/kassi/xingwall.git
$ cd xingwall
$ npm link xing-xpi
$ npm install
Development
Copy .env.example to .env and set the environment variables to fit your development environment.
Best you install grunt globally to avoid having to run grunt by specifying the whole path.
$ npm install -g grunt-cli
Make sure mongodb is runnig and run grunt
$ grunt
Usage
Run it in production mode
$ npm start
Deployment
You can deploy this application to Heroku.
Before you can start using Heroku you have to install the heroku toolbelt.
Setup a new Heroku app
If you create a new Heroku application you have to add the Compose MongoDB addon and add the necessary config variables.
heroku config:set NODE_ENV=production
heroku config:set COOKIE_SECRET=aRandomCookieSecret
heroku config:set XING_CONSUMER_KEY=yourConsumerKey
heroku config:set XING_CONSUMER_SECRET=yourConsumerSecret
Deploy to Heroku
If you're deploying for the first time you have to remember to login and setup the heroku remote:
heroku loginheroku git:remote -a YOUR_APP_NAME
After that you can deploy using the usual git push:
git push heroku master
Authors
- Jan Ahrens
- Karsten Silkenbäumer
- Blake Simpson
- Volker Tietz