A blog system written on the Sails.js framework, using MongoDB for document storage.

This is a demonstrative example of a web application built using the Sails.js framework with MongoDB. Public-facing views are rendered via EJS templates on the server. The administration UI is powered by Angular.js.

1. If using Sails.js for the first time, be sure to npm install -g sails.
2. Clone/fork the Git repository to your machine.
3. Run npm install inside the directory.
4. Create a MongoDB database for your blog (e.g. sails-blog).
5. Create a file called local.js in the config/ directory:

'use strict';
module.exports = {
	connections: {
	'sails-blog': {
		adapter: 'sails-mongo',
		host: 'localhost', // Host if remote connection
		port: 27017, // Port if not default
		// Uncomment these and add values if you need to authenticate to MongoDB
		// user: '',
		// password: '',
		database: 'sails-blog' // The name of your database
	}
};

1. You will need to create an initial author. Run sails console.
2. Enter Author.create({ email: '[email protected]', password: 'yourPassword', displayName: 'Your Name' }).exec(sails.log); (with your information)
3. Observe the ID of the newly created author.
4. Open config/sailsBlog.js and set the value of adminAuthorId to be the ID of your newly created author to give yourself administrative access.
5. Edit any other values in sailsBlog.js as you see fit.

Run the blog at any time with sails console for a REPL or sails lift for just output. Make sure mongod is running. Press Ctrl + C to stop.

Templates for the frontend views are rendered with EJS. They are in the views/ directory. Subdirectories include layouts/, which contains full-document templates, and components/, which are reusable template partials. All views are wrapped in the frontend.ejs layout. View assets (JavaScript, CSS, images, etc.) are contained in the assets/ directory.

Each of the static public-facing views are rendered by the ViewsController, which renders the EJS template and passes the relevant data into it. To add or manipulate the data passed into a view, edit api/controllers/ViewsController.js.

Additional frontend views can be created by adding additional methods to the ViewsController, creating a view file in views/, and adding another route to the ViewController method routes in config/routes.js.