This is a leave management application, which allows the employees of an organization to apply for leaves, managers can view the leave requests and can approve or reject the leave request.
The maximum duration for a leave can be of 15 days and it excludes weekends and national holidays. This value is configurable.
To setup the application clone this repository, install node dependencies and you should be ready to run the application. NOTE: This guide assumes that you are familior with git tool.
git clone https://github.com/riteshsangwan/novanet-leave-management.git
cd novanet-leave-management
npm install
The application uses bower for client dependencies. npm install command should run bower install in postinstall script which will install bower dependencies.
The application uses grunt as javascript task runner.
The application uses node-config for application configuration.
The application uses mysql db as the data storage solution.
The application uses novanet-datasource npm module which is specifically designed for this application.
The datasource module has following two mandatory configurations
"datasource": {
"dbUrl": "mysql://root:password@localhost:3306/novanet",
"modelsDirectory": "./models"
}
Make sure that the mysql connection string is correct. Read more about the datasource module on the github readme page of module.
Almost all the configurations are self explanatory.
Application uses db-migrate to manage database migration.
Run grunt dbmigrate task and it will setup database for you in a single command.
It will create necessary tables in mysql and populate the initial data.
To run the application, run following command in application root directory
node app.js
This should start the application server on port 4040 as per the default configuration. Navigate to http://localhost:4040 to see application in action.