Snag

Automated room reservation for Domi Station's members. Built and maintained during Fall '14 and Spring '15. Node/Express server running on Heroku.

User Facing

• Clean natural language request form
• Form validation and error notifications
• Local storage for company and email fields
• Auto fill the current date for faster requests
• Check if room is available before proceeding
• Confirmation emails with Mandrill
• Full width loading bar that doesn't glitch

Backend

• Google calendar server to server (no user) authentication
• Utilization of gcal.events.list and gcal.events.insert
• Confirmation and error emails with Mandrill
• MongoDB storage for members and requests
• Dashboard showcasing database and light analytics
• Slight MVC framework

File Structure

• server.js
• .env - gitignored
• package.json
• boot/
  • index.js
  • config.js
  • routes.js
• app/
  • controllers/
    • dash.js
    • snag.js
  • models/
    • db.js
    • email.js
    • calendar.js
  • helpers/
    • index.js
  • views/
    • dash.jade
    • member.jade
    • requests.jade
    • footer.jade
• public/
  • css/
  • js/
  • img/
  • font/
• siteForm/
  • form for squarespace site

Setup

Prerequisites

1. node.js installed
2. npm installed
3. .env file is needed to connect to various services (Mandrill, GCal, etc.)

After forking this repo run the following

$ npm install
$ npm update

Then use any of the following to start the server

$ node server.js
$ foreman start

Heroku uses Foreman which uses the Procfile, info here

Head over to http://localhost:5000/dash for the dashboard to make sure everything checks out.

When Testing

If you are making changes to room reservations you can test it by opening up ./siteForm/index.html and changing the ajax url to 'localhost:5000/room'.