SailsJS Blog

Blog using SailsJS API for the backend, AngularJS for the front-end and MongoDB for the database.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/etiennetremel/sailsjs-angular-blog.git
$ cd sailsjs-angular-blog
$ npm install

Then you will have to install bower dependencies: If you are not familiar with Bower, please check this documentation. Make sure bower is installed globally, if not do:

$ npm install -g bower

...and install all the dependencies:

$ bower install

Almost finish... Configure Amazon Web Services to store all the picture: /config/aws.js

Then configure MongoDB /config/adapters.js

If you prefer, use the local configuration file /config/local.js to store all these informations (documentation available here)

And, lift sails:

$ sails lift

Visit http://localhost:1337/

Admin access:

Username: admin
Password: admin

###Auto-reload server on file change /!\ Not to be used in production Make sure you have Nodemon installed: npm install -g nodemon Then instead of typing sails lift type nodemon -w . app.js The server will be automatically reloaded on file change.

Features

Authentification using Passport
Write post content with Markdown
Multiple Image uploader via Amazon AWS
Tags / Categories
Search
Cross-Site Request Forgery Protection
Notification system (Growl)
Semantic UI framework

Amazon Web Service Credentials

Amazon is used as a storage system for any images you woule like to add to a post. You have to define the credential in the configuration file located in the following folder /config/aws.js

Configure SailsJS to work locally

As SailsJS allow to configure a local environment, you should create a /config/local.js file which should include any settings specifically for your development computer such as:

aws: {
  accessKeyId: 'access key to be defined here',
  secretAccessKey: 'secret access key to be defined here',
  region: 'us-west-2',
  bucket: 'my-bucket-name',
  endPoint: 's3.amazonaws.com'
},

adapters: {
  'default': 'mongo',

  mongo: {
    module   : 'sails-mongo',
    host     : 'localhost',
    port     : 27017,
    user     : '',
    password : '',
    database : 'sailsjs-angular-blog'
  }
}

Specific customisation

Admin user is automatically created via /config/bootstrap.js. Default username/password: admin/admin

/config/404.js has been modified to redirect all requested page to layout.ejs with a 200 status.

Next to do

Comment system
User registration
... and much more

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