Cantas

Cantas is a real-time collaborative web application.It is 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: v0.6

###new features:

1. support importing trello's exported board json file.
2. support adding card image cover
3. support file upload to cantas

Setup development environment

• rpm requirements:

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

• install Nodejs (v0.8.15 preferred), npm, MongoDB, Redis.

  # nodejs & npm
  wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.15/node-v0.8.15.tar.gz
  tar -xvf node-v0.8.15.tar.gz
  cd node-v0.8.15
  ./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]:xiaods/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

  cp settings.json.example settgins.json
  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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