meanit

Getting Started

Reddit-style forum written in MEAN stack.

Dependencies listed in package.json. To run project:

$ git clone https://github.com/noobbyte/meanit  
$ cd meanit  
$ npm install  
$ node server.js  

Then navigate to http://127.0.0.1.

Features

Reddit-style forum, i.e.

• Posts have titles, links, accompanying text, and comments
• Posts and comments are sorted by overall rating
• Registered and authenticated users can make or rate posts or comments
• Posts or comments can only be rated once
• User pages contain links to all posts and comments by that user

Organization

/meanit
  /config
    passport.js - User validation and authentication
  /models - Contains Mongoose object models
    Comments.js
    Posts.js
    Users.js
  /public
    /js - Client-side JavaScript
      app.js - Angular app
    /less - Uncompiled client-side CSS
      styles.less - Less stylesheet
  /routes
    index.js - Express routing and middleware
  /shared
    Util.js - Utility functions
  /views - Uncompiled Pug HTML templates
    home.pug
    index.pug
    login.pug
    posts.pug
    register.pug
    users.pug
  gulpfile.js - Gulp tasks for Less and Pug compilation
  package.json - Dependency list for npm
  server.js - Main Node/Express server