API for columby.com

About

This is the backend for columby.com.

Technology used

The Columby API is built with the following great (open source) technology:

• Digital Ocean Server
• Ubuntu 14.0.4 LTS
• NodeJS
• Gulp
• Express - Web server
• Sequelize - Database communication
• Node JWT - User authentication
• Postgresql with postGIS - Main database with excellent geo-support
• Forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever)
• NGINX
• Cron
• Upstart

Workflow

Development - Staging - Production
All development and pull-requests are handled in the development branch.
Wercker is used to build and deploy automatically when new code is pushed to a branch.

Development

To run the API locally, use gulp to start the process. A configuration file at /server/config/env.js is required with the proper environment variables.

gulp serve

Staging / Production

Create a production version with Gulp:

gulp build

Serve ./dist/server/server.js using gulp, or the columby-api upstart process.

pm2 start

Contact

Email: [email protected]
Github: Github issues