Idea Hut

Individual project for CSC309 (Programming on the Web) at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Winter 2015.

Main goal: build a site where users can find and post startup ideas in predefined categories.

Phase 1: Basic Features

Common

• user registration and authentication
• view startup idea titles, popularity, category and original poster
• filter startup ideas alphabetially, by date posted, by tags, by username, and by category

While Logged In

• post startup ideas
• update your own ideas
• delele your own ideas
• view startup idea details
• like or dislike other ideas

## Phase 2: RESTful Interface Features

Get top k ideas between two dates.

url: /api/top/k/start-date/end-date Where k is an integer greater than 1, start-date and end-date are date strings (can be any format supported by JavaScript's Date object). Returns a JSON array of startup ideas.

Distrubution Graph

url: /api/distribution/view Returns the distribution graph in HTML form.

Additional RESTful Interface Feature

• The distribution graph itself uses the RESTful interface pull data. It does this by sending an AJAX request to the route /api/distribution.

Install and Run

Requirements: Node.js and Sails.
Note: This project was built with Node.js v0.12.2 and Sails v0.11.

1. Install Sails:
   # npm install -g sails

2. Clone this repository and install additional modules. The sails-mongo adapter was used to connect to a MongoDB database. Note that a connection to any database other than MongoDB will require editing a few controller actions.

$ git clone https://github.com/seedform/Idea-Hut.git
$ cd Idea-Hut
$ npm install sails-mongo --save

3. Configure your MongoDB connection in config/connections.js.
4. Lift the server:

# sails lift