Sandstorm App Market

This is the code that runs at: https://apps.sandstorm.io

Getting started guide for new developers

Settings

You will need to supply a settings.json file as follows:

{
  "public": {
    "API_URL": "[Sandstorm Apps API endpoint]",
    "INDEX_OVERRIDE_URL": "[OPTIONAL - override the app index endpoint]",
    "APP_OVERRIDE_URL": "[OPTIONAL - override the app detail endpoint]",
    "IMAGE_OVERRIDE_URL": "[OPTIONAL - override the app images endpoint]",
    "PACKAGE_OVERRIDE_URL": "[OPTIONAL - override the app spks endpoint]",
    "FLAG_URL": "[URL to which to POST app flag details]"
  }
}

One valid settings.json lives in settings-example.json. You can run this command to use it:

cp settings-example.json app/settings.json

Running the app

Sandstorm App Store runs on Meteor. To install Meteor locally:

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Meteor comes with an integrated CLI which will build and serve the app locally, and also deploy the application to Meteor's own servers (useful for testing).

To clone and run the app locally (once you've configured storage as per above):

git clone git@github.com:sandstorm-io/sandstorm-app-market.git
cd sandstorm-app-market/app
meteor run --settings settings.json

The app will be served at localhost:3000.

Configuring service accounts for OAuth

In order to login with social auth providers, you will need to insert the following docs into the mongo meteor_accounts_loginServiceConfiguration collection:

{ "service" : "github", "clientId" : "[YOUR_ID]", "secret" : "[YOUR_SECRET]" }
{ "service" : "google", "clientId" : "[YOUR_ID]", "secret" : "[YOUR_SECRET]", "loginStyle" : "popup" }

You can obtain the required credentials as follows:

Google

Create a project here, singing up first if required.
Select APIs & Auth => Consent screen from the menu on the left and enter a name for the app (e.g. "Sandstorm App Market"). Save it.
Then, select APIs & Auth => Credentials and click Create new Client ID and select Web Application.
Change the homepage to match your site's homepage (or http://localhost:3000 if running in development). Change the authorized redirect URL to [HOMEPAGE]/_oauth/google.
The Client ID and Secret should appear on the right hand side of the screen presently.

Github

Create a project here.
Change the homepage to match your site's homepage (or http://localhost:3000 if running in development). Change the authorized redirect URL to [HOMEPAGE]/_oauth/github.
The Client ID and Secret will appear near the top of the page after you submit.

Release process: Easy way

gce-ss ssh market
sudo su - marketupdater
bash -x update-myself.sh

This script:

Downloads the latest code
Uses a known-working sandstorm-0.tar.xz to slipstream the market into
Builds a market bundle
Tests that it works by launching it on localhost:6082
Switches the deployment to use it.

Release process: Details

Our release process for the app market involves taking a Sandstorm bundle, ripping out the Sandstorm front-end, and inserting the App Market code in its place. It turns out the Sandstorm bundle-runner is an excellent way to run arbitrary Meteor apps for the same reasons that it is an excellent way to run Sandstorm itself:

It takes care of Mongo, including setting up authentication intelligently, configuring oplog tailing (hard!), and recovering from crashes.
It auto-restarts Node and Mongo when they crash.
It makes updates trivial ("sandstorm update ").
We have a lot of experience wrangling the Sandstorm bundle runner, compared to alternatives like Meteor-Up.

To build a release, you must:

Check out the Sandstorm code and do make sandstorm-0-fast.tar.xz.
Copy sandstorm-0-fast.tar.xz to the App Market source directory.
Run ./make-bundle.sh sandstorm-0-fast.tar.xz market.tar.xz to build market.tar.xz, the App Market release bundle.

Once you have market.tar.xz, you can install it over an existing Sandstorm install, or even use it as input to Sandstorm's install.sh. For example:

sandstorm update market.tar.xz: "Update" an existing Sandstorm (or App Market) install to the new App Market bundle.
sandstorm/install.sh market.tar.xz: Use the Sandstorm installer to install the App Market. Note that most of the installer prompts don't make sense. You should do a custom install with no Sandcats and no HTTPS.

The file release.sh is a script which automates updating Sandstorm's official App Market server. To use this script, your PATH must contain a command gce-ss which expands to gcloud compute "$@" with Google Cloud zone and project ID set accordingly.