d-pac

Digitaal platform voor het assessment van competenties

NOT PRODUCTION READY

Not by a long shot.

Getting started

Installation

$ npm install

Configuration

d-pac.cms uses .env files to configure your environment. At the very least a single .env file should be present, but it's advisable to use separate files for each environment. The .env files are excluded from git, since they contain sensitive information, but a .EXAMPLE.env file is provided which contains sample settings. You can copy this file and rename it to .env and modify the settings as needed.

Settings

E.g.

CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa@keystone-demo
MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost/d-pac-tool
PORT = 3020
LOGGER = [:date] - :remote-addr - :method :url HTTP/:http-version :status :res[content-length] - :response-time ms
DEBUG = dpac:*
CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS = http://localhost:9000
CORS_ALLOWED_METHODS = GET,POST,PATCH,OPTIONS,DELETE,PUT
CORS_ALLOWED_HEADERS = X-CSRF-Token, X-Requested-With, Accept, Accept-Version, Content-Length, Content-Type, Date, Request-UUID, Accept-Encoding
CORS_EXPOSED_HEADERS = Request-UUID
CORS_DISABLED = true

A large number of settings are necessary to allow a proper functioning of the underlying KeystoneJS framework, see Keystone demo documentation for an explanation of CLOUDINARY_URL, MANDRILL_APIKEY, MANDRILL_USERNAME, EMBEDLY_APIKEY, COOKIE_SECRET, MONGO_URI, GA_DOMAIN, GA_PROPERTY, PORT

However, a number of custom settings are optionally set as well:

• LOGGER: Configures the Morgan logger instance, see documentation for logger formats.
• DEBUG: Configures the debug instance, see documentation on usage.
• CORS_DISABLED: Enables/disables CORS for your d-pac.csm instance.
• CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS: Provide a space-delimited list of URL's that are allowed to execute CORS requests.
• CORS_ALLOWED_METHODS: Restrict which methods are allowed in CORS requests.
• CORS_ALLOWED_HEADERS: Restrict which headers are allowed in CORS requests.
• CORS_EXPOSED_HEADERS: Restrict which headers will be exposed in CORS request responses.

Multiple Environments

As mentioned before generally it's a good idea to have a .env file for each environment d-pac.cms will be running on. Set all default options in your plain .env file and provide environment-specific settings in the various other env files.

E.g.

# file: .env
CLOUDINARY_URL=cloudinary://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa@keystone-demo
PORT = 3020

# file: .env.staging
MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost/d-pac-tool-staging

# file: .env.production
MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost/d-pac-tool

Use the NODE_ENV environment variable to define which settings will be used. This can be done in a number of ways, either:

1. Export the NODE_ENV variable in your .bashrc (or .profile or...) file, e.g.

# file: .bashrc (or similar)
export NODE_ENV=production

2. Set it on the CLI when starting d-pac.cms

$ NODE_ENV=production node server.js

3. Pass it as a flag to grunt, when using grunt to run the various tasks:

$ grunt deploy --env=staging

Deployment

D-pac uses flightplan to separate deployment automation from other automated tasks, see documentation for a detailed explanation.

Configuration

Flight manifests are automatically loaded from a flights directory. A flights/example.js file is provided to show how to set it up. You need a flight manifest file for each deployment target.

E.g. let's say we have a "staging" and "production" server we want to deploy to, then the flights directory needs to contain a file for each: staging.js and production.js.

Usage

$ fly staging

Will do a full deployment to whatever server you configured in staging.js.

Sub-targets:

$ fly qa:staging

Runs some quality assurance tools

Contributing

Testing

TBD

Previewing

$ grunt serve

Publishing the docs

$ grunt publish

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