Cantas

Cantas is a real-time collaborative web application.This is a side project, used as internal productivity tool in Red Hat. We believed this is the best open source project for learning HTML5/Nodejs/socket.io/backbone.js technology.

Thanks for all Contributors

Update news

Current stable: v1.0

Demo Site: http://cantas-onepiecejs.rhcloud.com/

###new features:

1. support login with google account.
2. add mycards panels to home page.
3. support cards filter.

deploy to openshift

rhc domain create <yournamespace>

rhc app create cantas nodejs-0.10 -s

cd cantas/

rhc cartridge add mongodb-2.4 -a cantas

rhc cartridge add "http://cartreflect-claytondev.rhcloud.com/reflect?github=smarterclayton/openshift-redis-cart" -a cantas

git remote add upstream -m master [email protected]:onepiecejs/nodejs-cantas.git

git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

git push

rhc env set NODE_ENV=production -a cantas

rhc app restart -a cantas

Setup development environment

• rpm requirements:

  sudo yum install -y krb5-devel krb5-libs krb5-workstation

• install Nodejs, npm, MongoDB, Redis.

  # nodejs & npm
  wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.22/node-v0.10.22.tar.gz
  tar -xvf node-v0.10.22.tar.gz
  cd node-v0.10.22
  ./configure && make
  sudo make install
  # mongo
  sudo yum install mongodb mongodb-server
  # redis
  sudo yum install redis

Note: If you got g++: command not found while you installing nodejs, you can install it by sudo yum install gcc-c++.

• checkout source code and update node packages via npm

  git clone [email protected]:onepiecejs/nodejs-cantas.git
  cd nodejs-cantas
  npm install

• start redis server and mongodb server

  # if you have installed them as services, do
  sudo systemctl start redis
  sudo systemctl start mongod
  # or
  sudo service redis start
  sudo service mongod start

  # otherwise,
  redis-server &
  && mongod --dbpath=/tmp &

• start the app

  # update settings values
  cp settings.json.example settings.json
  
  # setup initalize data
  node scripts/db_init_label_metadata.js
  
  # start the app
  NODE_ENV=development node app.js

Note: make sure the mongod deamon is running before starting the app.

That's it.

Resources

• trello
• the trello tech talk
• HTML5 pushState

Integration && Test Environment

• Grunt task to run jasmine unit tests through phantomjs

Dependencies

• Node.js
• npm
• Backbone.js
• SOCKET.IO
• Redis
• Mongo

Template engine

• Jade

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cantas is a real-time collaborative application.