web

CampusEats on Web

Release Notes

v1.0

• New Features
  • Feed of events from GT calendar and user submissions
    • Feed is clickable to show event details
  • User submissions
  • Month view calendar to navigate to specific dates
  • Users can 'like' a post
• Bugs
  • Known
    • Date headers do not display correctly when specific dates are clicked from month view.

Installation Guide

Install Node.js and npm via Homebrew.

$ brew install node
$ node -v 	// currently v6.3.0
$ npm -v 	// currently v3.10.6

Dependencies

All the dependencies used to run the node server are installed in node_modules.

• firebase : Firebase core web library.
• xmlhttprequest : Node wrapper for fetching XML data.
• xmldom : Node module for converting plain text to XML.
• htmlparser : Parse plain text to HTML.
• node-schedule : Scheduler to fire method calls in time intervals.

Firebase tools are used to initialize, modify, and deploy the web server. $ npm install -g firebase-tools // be careful with this, DO NOT MODIFY if possible.

Run Node Server

$ node node_server.js	// you must be in the directory of this file

Deploy Firebase module

$ firebase deploy

CampusEats is hosted at https://project-2581007719456375150.firebaseapp.com