ibt2/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md

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ibt2 development
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Paths
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Webapp
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These are the paths you see in the browser (VueJS does client-side routing: no request is issued to the web server, during navigation, if not for fetching data and issuing commands):
- / - home; will redirect to the entry for today
- /#/day/:day - show groups for the given date (in yyyy-mm-dd format)
- /#/user/ - list of all users (only visible by admins)
- /#/user/:id - show setting for the give user ID
- /#/settings - global setting (only visible by admins)
Web server
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- /attendees GET - the list of all entries
- /attendees POST - write a new entry
- /attendees/:id GET - a single entry
- /attendees/:id PUT - update an entry
- /attendees/:id DELETE - delete an entry
- /days GET - all entries, grouped by day and by group
- /days/:day GET - a single day entries, grouped by group (yyyy-mm-dd format)
- /days/:day/info PUT - write or update information about a day
- /days/:day/groups/:group PUT - used to rename a group (with the newName key)
- /days/:day/groups/:group DELETE - delete a group
- /days/:day/groups/:group/info PUT - write or update information about a group (the :group key is its name)
- /users GET - list of all users
- /users POST - create a new user
- /users/:id GET - a single user
- /users/:id PUT - update a user
- /users/current GET - information about the currently logged in user
- /settings GET - get all global settings
- /settings POST and PUT - add one or more new settings, or update existing ones
- /login POST - login of a user
- /logout GET - log the current user out
Example of */attendees/:id*:
``` json
{"day": "2017-01-20", "name": "Attendee Name", "group": "Group Name", "updated_by": "587a7c79dff0d71c89211dc4", "created_at": "2017-01-20 13:57:26.029000", "updated_at": "2017-01-20 13:57:26.029000", "created_by": "587a7c79dff0d71c89211dc4", "_id": "58820936dff0d740dee647a4"}
```
Example of */days/:day*:
``` json
{"day": "2017-01-20", "groups": [{"group": "Group Name", "attendees": [{"day": "2017-01-20", "name": "Attendee Name", "group": "Group Name", "updated_by": "587a7c79dff0d71c89211dc4", "created_at": "2017-01-20 13:57:26.029000", "updated_at": "2017-01-20 13:57:26.029000", "created_by": "587a7c79dff0d71c89211dc4", "_id": "58820936dff0d740dee647a4"}]}]}
```
Database layout
===============
Information are stored in MongoDB. The *_id* key values are converted into native ObjectId.
The main information are stored in the *attendees* collection.
Code layout
===========
The code is so divided:
+- ibt2.py - the Tornado Web server
+- index.html - the html page that will be injected with the webApp
+- monco.py - backend to connect to a MongoDB instance
+- utils.py - various utilities
+- build/ - webpack and node configuration
+- dist/ - output of the build command will be put here
+- src/ - webApp sources
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+- main.js - kickoff the VueJS webApp
+- App.vue - main component of the webApp
+- *.vue - other webApp components
+- state.js - shared state of the webApp
Coding style and conventions
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It's enough to be consistent within the document you're editing.
I suggest four spaces instead of tabs for all the code: Python (**mandatory**), JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Python code documented following the [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) syntax.
not-so-FAQs
===========
- **Q:** why the backend is not in Node.js? Why?! WHYYY!?!!?!
- **A:** because science! (but mostly because I already had most of it ready from other projects)
- **Q:** *.vue* files? What's that?
- **A:** Vue [single-file components](https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html); a [webpack](https://webpack.js.org/) plugin will take care of translating them into stuff that can be digested by a browser.
- **Q:** I've added a new path to the backend, and now the hot reload server is not working!!1!!
- **A:** that's not even a question. Anyway, add the path to dev.proxyTable in *config/index.js*
- **Q:** will it be integrated with Slack?
- **A:** hell, no.