Teams in CPSC213 will turn in their weekly updates by keeping a blog. This is a starter blog for you. It accomplishes a few things:

• All data is kept in flat files so you can keep them under version control and so that we can comment easily on your progress via your repository.
• The application can be deployed to Heroku.
• The application allows only your team and the instructors to view it and relies on Yale CAS authentication to do that.

To start, you'll need to accept an invitation from the instructors to clone (or "fork") this repository via GitHub Classroom. Then you should clone it to your development machine and get to work altering it for your team.

To run the application, you'll need Node installed. We recommend version v6.*LTS. (Node v6.9.4LTS is the current version as of this commit.) Once you have node installed, cd into the blog-starter directory and install the node dependencies:

yarn install

If you don't have Facebook's yarn installed, you should follow the directions on their website.

Then, you can install the client-side dependencies with

./node_modules/.bin/bower install

Then, you can run the application with the following command:

node index.js

If you're going to do a lot of editing, you might prefer to run it with nodemon, which will restart the server every time your source files change.

PORT=4000 ./node_modules/.bin/nodemon -e 'js,html,yaml,css' index.js

To update the blog, you'll be editing and adding .yaml files in the data/updates directory. Before you get into that, you'll likely want to customize data/team.yaml to correspond to your team, rather than the demo data with which we've populated it.

Go to herokuapp.com and log in or register an account if you have not already done so. Go to the following link https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs#introduction for a helpful tutorial on how to deploy your blog to Heroku.

• Make sure you have the Heroku Toolbelt installed; after installing, you will be able to use Heroku's suite of commands in your terminal.
• Start by logging in:

heroku login

• Then create an app on Heroku: heroku create, and it'll generate a random name for your app for you unless you add params like heroku create blah, and it'll create blah.herokuapp.com for you.
• Then deploy the code: git push heroku master
• You can now access your site by opening the link (eg blah.herokuapp.com) in your browser or by typing heroku open on your command line.

• We could have made this a static blog generator; however, we would not then be able to restrict login access via the Yale CAS system.
• You should feel free to customize this blog. Indeed, we hope you do---I do not enjoy looking at the same theme all the time.
• Git branching is a great way to work in your updates during the week. You can easily run a second instance of this blog that is the "in-development" branch or similar.