Project is unmaintained (archived)

Petition for archival is a process in which a projects state is altered to the "archival" state. In the "archival" state no organization member shall accept any pull request or address any issues related to the repository. A project can be set to the archival state after a period of six months with no pull requests you must however have two organization members or a club officer petition for this. the project can be restored to an active state by an approved appeal to the developers guild president.

Daze Backend API

How to Install

1. If you don't have Node.js, download it at http://nodejs.org/ and install it.
2. Clone the repo.
3. Navigate to the 'daze-backend' folder in terminal/cmd/bash.
4. Run npm install. This will install all the packages used in the website.
5. Go back to your first terminal/cmd/bash and run npm start to start up the server.
6. Open http://localhost:9000/ and you should be at the site.

Other Info

• Avoid pushing directly to master; instead, work on branches and make pull requests!
• Windows users may run into issues when trying to run the backend.

Node Packages Used

• Async
• Bcrypt - Encrypt passwords
• Body-Parser - Parse body elements in POST requests
• Express - Node Framework
• Mongoose - MongoDB Wrapper
• Validator - Validate user input

Handy Git Commands

• git clone [remote repo] - Get the project repo for the first time
• git pull origin [branch name] - Update a branch
• git status - Show the files that you have changed.
• git add --all - Stage all the files that you have changed for a commit
• git commit -m [commit message] - Commit your staged files to your local repo
• git push origin [branch name] - Push your local commits from your branch to the remote repo
• git stash - Stash your changed files
• git stash apply - Apply your stash
• git branch [branch name] - Create and checkout a new branch
• git checkout [branch name] - Checkout a branch
• git merge master - Merge your current branch with master
• git rebase master - Rebase your current branch on top of master

Coding Style

We'll be using Airbnb's ES5 Javascript Style Guide

Good Links to Check Out

• Express' Website
• npm's Website
• Dead Simple Guide to Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
• ES5 Javascript Style Guide

License

Code is licensed under MIT. See the LICENSE file for details.