Author: Ephraim Glick

After installing dependencies, you must add a line to the CDK Drag / Drop source code to avoid a bug. (When dragging a tile from one square on the board to another, a TypeError is thrown due to _itemPositions being empty. Root cause has not yet been identified.) The following should be added to drag-drop.es5.js at line 2660:

if (!this._itemPositions.length) { return; }

The following variables must be provided in a .env file:

• PORT [e.g. 5000]
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID [for Google Login functionality]
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET [for Google Login functionality]
• NODE_ENV [development or production]
• BASE_URL_DEV [e.g. http://localhost:5000]
• BASE_URL_PROD
• MONGODB_URI_DEV [e.g. mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017]
• MONGODB_URI_PROD
• DB_NAME [e.g. scrabsterdb]
• MAILER_ADDRESS [email account for NodeMailer]
• MAILER_PASSWORD [password for that account]

In terminal, run mongod to start the MongoDB daemon. Ensure that you have created a database with the name used for your DB_NAME environment variable (e.g. scrabsterdb).

To interact with MongoDB from your terminal, use mongo command along with the host flag specifying the address corresponding to your MONGODB_URI environment variable. E.g.:

mongo --host 127.0.0.1:27017.

Run yarn start to start the Node server.

There are a number of steps required to get this application running on AWS, but most of them are straightforward. I'll assume you're using a Linux server and will deploy by cloning the repo from GitHub. You'll need to use sudo for most of the shell commands.

• Install NVM to manage Node versions.
  • $ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash
  • nvm install node (to install the latest Node version)
• Install MongoDB and create a database.
  • Follow steps (1) and (2) to use .rpm packages as described here: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-amazon/.
  • Start up Mongo with mongod, or to detach it use mongod --fork --syslog.
  • Start the Mongo shell with mongo and create a database with use scrabsterdb (or whatever db name you're using in your .env file).
• Install Nginx and set up port mapping. This will allow you to serve your application to users at the server's public url without requiring a port to be appended.
  • yum install nginx
  • Map port 80 of your server to the port you've specified in your .env (e.g. 5000) by editing the file at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Under server configure the location as follows:

    location / {
      proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header  Host       $http_host;
      proxy_pass        http://127.0.0.1:5000;
    }
    

  • service nginx start
• Install Git: yum install git.
• Clone the repo from GitHub and create an .env file in the repo's root directory (see below for required variables).
• Install all application dependencies.
• Create a production build of the application with ng build --prod. If you encounter problems building on the AWS server, build on your local machine and commit the dist folder.
• Start up your Node server!

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 7.0.6.

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Run ng generate component component-name to generate a new component. You can also use ng generate directive|pipe|service|class|guard|interface|enum|module.

Run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the dist/ directory. Use the --prod flag for a production build.

Run ng test to execute the unit tests via Karma.

Run ng e2e to execute the end-to-end tests via Protractor.

To get more help on the Angular CLI use ng help or go check out the Angular CLI README.