Modern Web tools with Node.js
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  • Course Overview
  • Lectures
    • Introduction to Node.js and JavaScript
    • GitHub forks and pull requests
    • Modules and npm
    • Code validation, conventions, linting
    • HTTP, Connect, Express
    • Common task runners
    • Unit testing, Jasmine, PhantomJS
    • Automation and continuous integration
    • Package dependencies
    • Front end third party dependencies and Code coverage
    • Web performance
    • More about unit testing and code coverage
    • Security
    • Database
    • Heroku and other free hosting services
    • Examples for previous tasks
    • Feedback on the projects
  • Assignments
    • First assignment
    • Second assignment
    • Third assignment
    • Fourth assignment
    • Assignment projects
  • Presentations
  • Quizzes
    • Coveralls.io usage
    • CSSmin usage
    • ESLint
    • Gulp tasks
    • JavaScript scope
    • JavaScript types
    • JSLint and JSHint
    • MongoDB
    • npm commands
    • npm registry
    • Sitespeed.io Web Performance
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  • Plain Express initiated with its generator
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Heroku and other free hosting services

Date 02/12/2014

Task for today

Create a blog that is based on Express and publish it to Heroku/OpenShift or similar.

  • Create a free account in the given hosting provider and setup SSH keys

  • Create a repository at GitHub that is used for the development of the blog

  • Publish the blog by pushing it to the provider, such as git push heroku master

  • Profit...?

While doing the task, find out whether to use existing blogging tool or create your own with Express.

Links related to the lecture subject

  • Node.js High Availability at Box

  • Video: What does an Open Source Microsoft Web Platform look like?

Examples for the task

Plain Express initiated with its generator

http://expressjs.com/starter/generator.html

Source code https://github.com/expressjs/generator

npm i -g express-generator
express lorenzos-sweets
cd lorenzos-sweets
npm i
DEBUG=lorenzos-sweets ./bin/www

Now open the browser at http://localhost:3000 and you should see simple start page.

Ghost

https://ghost.org/ http://support.ghost.org/installation/

Download the latest release from https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases, unzip it and rename the folder as lorenzos-sweets.

npm i
npm start

Now open the browser at http://localhost:2368 and you should see something, but there is most likely an error due to missing database configuration.

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