NodeBoard

A Node gameboard. Kill your friends! Or just watch.

by Stafford Brooke and Loren Norman

Developer Installation

Dependencies

Right now the system requires a developer to do a few things manually to develop on it.

NPM & Packages

Install npm

Then install the required packages like this:

npm install [package name]

...where [package name] is each of these:

• express
• jade (currently not in use)

I think we can do away with this by using a package.json file?

Sprockets

If you intend to alter the client-side javascript code, you'll need Sprockets.

Sprockets is a command-line Javascript concatenation tool written in Ruby. Make sure you can run:

sprocketize -v

...from the command line and you know you've installed it correctly.

We should probably start using Jake for all of our pre-processing tasks, but this works for now.

Building

Once your dependencies are in order, you build the client-side project with:

script/build

This outputs knockout.js into public/, ready to be included by the main template file.

Running the Tests

You are writing tests, aren't you?

• Client Tests: /ClientSpec.html
• Server Tests: /ServerSpec.html

And add your new specs to spec/client and spec/server as need. You'll also need to add more Javascript include statements to the above .html files for each new spec file you add.

Running the Server

Ready to actually run the thing? Easy:

node server.js

Using the app

Hit your local server and interact with the app.