SoShiok ·

A full stack restaurant app built using Node.js 7.6+ and modern JavaScript.

Note: Please do not use this for production. The application is still under heavy development and the API is not stable.

Overview

• Features
• Application Architecture
  • Functionalties
  • Development Stack
• Quickstart
• Documentation
  • Standard
  • Sample Data
  • Deployment

Features

Users can:

• Search
• Geolocate
• Review
• Curate their favourite restaurants

Architecture

The application has three main models

• Users
• Stores
• Reviews

All models are relational.

Functionalties

The application is designed for today's technology needs such as:

• User authentication
• Database storage
• AJAX REST API
• File upload and image resizing

Development

Modern JavaScript:

• ECMAScript 6 (ES6) also known as ECMAScript 2015 (ES2015)
  • ES6 features are heavily used throughout the app, from destructuring to arrow functions
• ES6 Async + Await
  • It allows us to craft easy to read, logical flows without relying on external flow control libraries, chaining multiple promises, or writing spaghetti code by nesting callbacks
• Express
  • Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• Pug
  • Formerly known as "Jade"
  • A robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for Node.js
• Passport
  • A simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js
  • Passport is a middleware for Node.js
• Sass (Syntactically awesome style sheets)
  • A CSS preprocessor
• Webpack
  • A module bundler for modern JavaScript applications
• MongoDB
  • A document-oriented database and NoSQL database
  • Uses JSON-like documents with schemas

Quickstart

Basically, the app was developed in ES6. You should have knowledge of how functions, variables, Objects, Arrays and other JavaScript fundamentals work.

Prerequisite:

• Runtime: make sure we have Node.js 7.6 and above installed in our development environment.
• Database: we are using MongoDB 3.2.x

Then, clone the git repo. Rename variables.env.sample to variables.env. Update the environment settings in this configuration file.

Run the following command in your terminal:

Install all node packages (dependencies) listed in package.json file:

npm install

Start our server and run the app:

npm start

Documentation

Standard

The app was designed and developed based on widely adopted general JavaScript best practices from the industry's best Node.js developers.

Data

To load sample data, run the following command in your terminal:

npm run sample

If you have previously loaded in this data, you can wipe your database 100% clean with:

npm run blowitallaway

That will populate 16 stores with 3 authors and 41 reviews. The logins for the authors are as follows:

Name	Email (login)	Password
Cedric Chee	[email protected]	cedric
John Doe	[email protected]	john
Foo Bar	[email protected]	foo

Deployment

Supports:

• Deploying to Now
• Deploying to Heroku
• Digital Ocean Linux

License

SoShiok is an open-source software and is licensed under the MIT License.