The front-end server and client for the Gamefest platform.

• NodeJS Server
  • npm

1. Open a terminal in the directory root
2. Install Grunt and its cli for the command line -- npm install g- grunt then npm install -g grunt-cli (use sudo if on *nix)
3. Install Bower -- npm install -g bower (use sudo if on *nix)
4. Run npm install to download the components needed by npm.
5. Run bower install to download the components needed for the app.

Note: If, upon running grunt, you get any errors about missing packages you can use npm-install-missing to ensure everything is installed.

1. Install npm install -g npm-install-missing
2. Run npm-install-missing

There are two environments: dev and prod.

Run grunt server:dev to start the development environment. This will

1. Process your LESS and compile it to app.css in the /css folder
2. Add your bower dependencies to index.html in the the appropriate blocks
3. Annotate your angular js files so they can be safely minified later
4. Configure a proxy for the back-end, start the livereload server, and watch your project folders
5. Open a webpage for gamefest

Run grunt server:dist to generate a production environment. This task will

• Clean the current /dist folder (if any)
• Perform steps 1-3 of server:dev
• Copy your dev environment to /dist (will create if doesn't exist)
• Execute usemin to concatenate and minify your js and css resources as well as configure index.html to work with the new environment.

To use the production environment run node server.js --env=prod from the root directory.

Note: You need to have SSL certs in the root directory AS WELL AS permissions to use ports 80 and 443 to run --env=prod. If you do not have these you can use omit the flag to run node with dev settings.