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Technical Demo using backbone.js, D3, Solr, Tastypie and Tornado

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backbone-directory's Introduction

Technical Demo

I forked backbone-directory to use as a boilerplate codebase.

This demo uses among other technologies the following:

backbone.js (Frontend MVC)
D3 (Charting)
Solr (Search)
Tastypie (API Framework for Django)
Tornado (Non-blocking Web Server)

You can view a live demo if this app here: ec2-23-22-192-67.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Installation

If you're using a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12+ then you might need some packages installed first:

$ sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install python-pip python-virtualenv virtualenvwrapper \
                        git-core build-essential python2.7-dev \
                        libevent-1.4-2 libevent1-dev python-gevent

If you don't have a copy of Solr installed then have a look at these installation notes.

Clone a copy of this codebase from github:

$ cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/marklit/backbone-directory.git

Create a virtual environment.

I usually hide my virtualenv folders in ~/.virtualenvs. If you don't have this folder then create it with the following: mkdir ~/.virtualenvs.

Then, setup the virtualenv and activate it:

$ cd ~/.virtualenvs && \
  virtualenv backbone-directory && \
  source ~/.virtualenvs/backbone-directory/bin/activate

Go into the root folder of this repo and install the requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then setup the database and import the fixture data.

 $ cd ~/backbone-directory/src && \
   python manage.py syncdb && \
   python manage.py migrate && \
   python manage.py loaddata contacts photos

Create a new solr schema.xml.

 $ cd ~/backbone-directory/src && \
   python manage.py build_solr_schema

Take the XML portion of the output from above and place it in /etc/solr/conf/schema.xml.

Once that's in place, rebuild the solr indices:

 $ cd ~/backbone-directory/src && \
   python manage.py rebuild_index

Test everything is working nicely.

I try and keep a lot of the commands in fabric when possible. cd into the root of the repo and run the follow commands to test everything is looking okay:

 $ fab test_lint
 $ fab test_pep8
 $ fab test

It's pretty likely test_lint and test_pep8 will have some complaints. test shouldn't have any issues, if it does, there are problems in the code and or the environment that need to be addressed.

Run the webserver with the following:

 $ fab backend_tornado

This will bind the server to 0.0.0.0:8000 and launch it.

If you want to dump your contacts or photos table into the default fixtures run the following:

 $ fab update_fixtures

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Open port 8000 when setting up the firewall
Put a link to the web instance in this project's details here on github

https://gist.github.com/794424
https://github.com/toastdriven/django-tastypie/issues/197
http://alignedleft.com/tutorials/ Really good explanations into each area of D3
https://github.com/misoproject/cabinet-office Treemap of UK Govt spending
http://misoproject.com/dataset/examples.html Great D3/Backbone examples

These could help with lowering memory usage when JSONing data and sending it down the wire:

https://github.com/rtyler/py-yajl/
https://github.com/pykler/yajl-py
http://corner.squareup.com/2012/04/building-analytics.html It was used in this project

Django admin isn't rendering anymore

Switched to tornado in #8 but the django admin system will no longer render.

ERROR:root:Uncaught exception GET /admin/ (172.16.91.1)

HTTPRequest(protocol='http', host='172.16.91.179:8000', method='GET', uri='/admin/', version='HTTP/1.1', remote_ip='172.16.91.1', body='', headers={'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip,deflate,sdch', 'Host': '172.16.91.179:8000', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.75 Safari/537.1', 'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Cookie': '__utma=14075383.537382038.1342425035.1344509586.1344532052.25; __utmz=14075383.1342425035.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); sessionid=10abd31890375b5f78ca1020767bd931; csrftoken=JyuYz2Yz35Nks4X3UVqMsrRkHHmoemsS', 'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0'})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mark/.virtualenvs/backbone-directory/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tornado/web.py", line 1021, in _execute
    getattr(self, self.request.method.lower())(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/mark/backbone-directory/src/base/management/commands/run_tornado.py", line 214, in get
    self.write(response.content)
  File "/home/mark/.virtualenvs/backbone-directory/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/response.py", line 123, in _get_content
    raise ContentNotRenderedError('The response content must be '

ContentNotRenderedError: The response content must be rendered before it can be accessed.

Unit test JS

Have a look at this: http://pivotal.github.com/jasmine/

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