"Activist" (working title, we need a real title)

This is a web app to help people find opportunities to get involved in progressive events and organizations near them. It's built in Node+React+Redux+Express+Mongo. Contact Ian if you want to get involved.

Project setup

You will need to copy example.env to web-variables.env:

cp example.env web-variables.env

Now edit web-variables.env with your API keys and session secret.

Running everything with Docker-Compose

1. Install Docker and Docker Compose
2. cd into the project directory
3. Build the docker image with docker-compose build
4. Run the app with docker-compose up -d
5. Stop the app with docker-compose down

Running the web app

Once the webapp is running you can view it at http://localhost:3000

Making updates to React code

You must run webpack yourself to build a new bundle.js when you change React code. Eg, have this running in its own terminal: NODE_ENV=development webpack -w.

This will allow you to save a change to React code, and just refresh your browser to see the change. docker-compose's volume will track the changes without requiring you to rebuild or restart Docker.

(Maybe we'll set up hot reloading in the future...)