README.md

bitstarter

Crowd funding for goals and projects with Bitcoin.

• Front-facing web site
  • List of all goals/projects
• Admin interface:
  • Add/edit/delete goals / projects to be funded with Bitcoin
  • Login and logout
• Bitcoin API service to look-up funds in public addresses
• Node script to create admin users

Getting Started

What you need:

• Node.js - https://nodejs.org/en/ - you can use any version (lts/current)

• Git - https://git-scm.com/downloads

• MySql - http://www.mysql.com/ (for Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/mysql.html)

You need to get both Node and git working before moving on with the rest of the instructions. Both have pretty straight forward setup guides so getting them working shouldn't be a problem.

1. After you get these 2 things working, you have to go to https://github.com/Learn-by-doing/bitstarter and fork the git repository using these instructions https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/

2. Navigate to your project directory and run npm install to install all the dependencies required by the project

3. Add a user to the bitstarter database with the same name. Sample SQL statement to do this:

CREATE USER 'bitstarter'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY  'password';

GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO  'bitstarter'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY  'password' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON  `bitstarter` . * TO  'bitstarter'@'localhost';

4. Create the first user: In your command line, go to the /scripts folder and run node create-user.js. Follow the instructions.

5. Run npm start

That's it!