tomsabin.co.uk - photography portfolio

Read more about the project creation on the UBXD:IO blog.

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Dependencies and packages

• flickr-fetch: Used to populate the database with photos from a given Flickr photoset ID.
• iron-router
• iron-router-progress
• scss, bourbon, neat (see following section)

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Local Development

Starting the server locally with a defined MongoDB

1. Start MongoDB

mongod --dbpath=<path>

2. Start Meteor

MONGO_URL="mongodb://<host>:<port>/<database>" meteor run --port 3000

3. Go to http://localhost:3000

Compiling SASS with Compass

Using Bourbon Neat for grid framework, SASS for le CSS and Compass to compile it all. Phew.

1. Ensure that compass is installed: gem install compass

2. Then cd to the root of the project and run compass compile or compass watch

Deploying

1. Ensure MONGO_URL, ROOT_URL and BUILDPACK_URL are set when deploying for the first time:

• heroku config:set MONGO_URL=mongodb://<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<database>
• heroku config:set ROOT_URL=<appname>.herokuapp.com OR heroku config:set ROOT_URL=http://<your-domain.com>
• heroku config:add BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite.git

2. Push latest changes to master

3. Push changes to heroku git push heroku master