This application offers two things:
- A RESTful interface to ResidentAdvisor
- A mobile UI to ResidentAdvisor which uses the interface
- The API runs on Node.js + Express. Pages are scraped with jsdom and jQuery. A caching layer is provided by MongoDB.
- The mobile UI is built with jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js
Install npm, node, mongo. Clone the repo locally, then npm install will install all the other dependencies.
- Launch mongo (
mongod) - Launch the app with (
node app)
Point your mobile browser to http://radvisor.net and play. WARNING this is still in alpha stage. Suggestions and forks are welcome!