Snowparking :: API

Receives emails from the city when a snow emergency occurs, and provides an API for the front endto easily know snow emergency statuses.

VMS Easy setup development environment

Use these instructions to setup a temporary* development environment of this project.

Fork this repository
Create a new Virtual Machine >> SSH in >> Run vms quick install:
export GHUSER='AnthonyAstige' (Replace AnthonyAstige with your username)
curl -L -o- https://rawgit.com/codeforeauclaire/snowparking/master/api/vmsinstall.sh | bash && source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
Run api app
(cd ~/snowparking/api/bin && ./serve-node)
Load http://{vms-ip}:3050/status in your browser
Edit a file to see changes in your browser instantly

*For a permanent development environment we recommend you read the referenced script above to install locally.

I'm probably doing this wrong. I'm used to Meteor.js and not sure standards around raw node.js projects - Anthony May 2016

Setup server
Make free tier Ubuntu server with AWS
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
1. May need to run sudo ln /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/sbin/node StackOverflow Reference
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install mongodb
Get code on server
./deploy
Setup app
cd api
npm install express --save
npm install --save body-parser
npm install mongo --save
npm install moment --save
npm install moment-timezone --save
sudo npm link mongodb (Seemed to have helped StackOverflow Reference)
Run
cd api
./serve-mongo (Will error if not needed / already running)
./serve-node
Configure server
Open up port 3000 as needed StackOverflow post
Confirm running
Go to http://localhost:3000