GREATER MSP: Exports Navigator

Overview

Web portal for GREATER MSP and its 16-county region businesses to navigate the complicated ecosystem of exports

Team members

• Liz Kerber
• Anthony Maki
• Kyle Quamme
• Katie Vogel

Installation

Use the following one-liner shell code to clone this repo, change your directory, and install all the npm packages to node_modules (be sure to execute this code inside of the directory where you prefer to keep your coding projects):

git clone https://github.com/4cm4k1/exports-navigator.git && cd exports-navigator && npm install

Development

The following Grunt tasks (listed by command line keywords) are available to assist development:

• grunt: runs the default task, which consists of jshint, uglify, cssmin, and watch, and only terminates on error or Ctrl-C
• grunt copy: copies specified vendor libraries from node_modules to public/assets/vendors
• grunt cssmin: minifies CSS files in client/styles and exports to public/assets/styles/style.min.css
• grunt jshint: evaluates all JS files except the .min.js file for proper syntax and other errors
• grunt uglify: minifies JS files in client/scripts and exports to public/assets/scripts/client.min.js

Also, nodemon is recommended. It runs npm start and monitors the project for any changes, after which it will restart the server. No more repeated npm start! Install nodemon globally with this command: npm install nodemon -g

Using the grunt default task and nodemon in conjunction makes development significantly more buttery smooth.