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• Design and boilerplate

  Francisco Presencia • 06/14/2016 at 20:50 • 0 comments

  I started by preparing NPM and the Node.js server and creating the boilerplate for the module. Since I am creating a new section of an ongoing project, this was not so difficult but still I preferred rewriting a bit of the base for easier development for future hackers.

  For instance, now to run the project in development mode a developer just has todo:

  npm run watch

  While before an obscure file in ./scripts/start.sh had to be called with a lot of custom logic.
  

  Besides that, the boilerplate has been created in ./modules/research, a small REST API:

  // Routing
  var controller = require('./controller');
  
  module.exports = function(router){
  
    router.get('/research', controller.index);
    router.get('/research/:id', controller.get);
    router.post('/research', controller.add);
    router.post('/research/:id', controller.edit);
  
    return router;
  };
  

  The Controller however is rather simple, with no model reference yet:

  module.exports.index = function(req, res){
    res.render('research/index');
  };
  module.exports.get = function(req, res){
    res.render('research/one');
  };
  module.exports.add = function(req, res){
    res.render('research/one');
  };
  module.exports.edit = function(req, res){
    res.render('research/one');
  };
  

  And the views are a simple "works!" that is not work even showing here. This version with the files can be seen in the Github commit files.

  On the other hand, I have also started with the design.

  The index.jade view will look like this:And when you want to upload a single file it will looks like this:
  

  So there you go, first design. A basic layout on paper and the boilerplate to start working on the project. More updates soon.
  

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