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Hackathon Winner - won an iPhone 6 :D

Video demo https://youtu.be/A5FAvjZvsyc

Live link - trial expired

note: the live link is hosted on a trial bluemix account. If it doesn't open anymore open an issue and I'll set up some alternative hosting.

Deploying

1.Create a bluemix instance with node.js template. give a name to it say 'myapp'. will use 'myapp' for rest of the steps.

install cloud foundry online tool.

2.add text-to speech, trade off analytics to myapp. --both of above can be done using dashboard or the cloud foundry tool

3.add compose for mongodb database from dashboard. create a mongodb database from compose dashboard and create a user.

3.apply compose settings from dashboard with environment variable "MONGO_URL"using cloudfoundry tool. eg. (substitute your created username and password which you created in compose)

cf set-env myapp MONGO_URL 'mongodb://<username>:<password>@yourdatabaseurlfromcomposedashboard'

In the project directory

4.connect to bluemix

cf api https://api.au-syd.bluemix.net

5.login using your ibm credentials

cf login

6. To deploy run cf push myapp -b https://github.com/ind1go/bluemix-buildpack-meteor.git

access the app from the url seen in dashboard

iPhone/Apple devices:

1. you must have a mac for this. No need for developer account however since you can run app locally for free in xcode 7.
2. Install meteor tool https://www.meteor.com/install
3. from project directory meteor run ios-device --mobile-server https://my-deployed-app-url-from-dashboard --settings ./settings.json settings parameter is optional

This will open a xcode project from where you can run the app simulator or your device.

Note:

currently facebook and google oauth redirect urls are set for my app. i.e they wont run on a url other than "biddu.au-syd.mybluemix.net" to fix this create your own facebook/google/twitter appId and keys for oauth and replace them in server/startup.js

Amazon s3 is used to store images for auctions. you need to put in your s3 credentials or the app will select a random image from public folder. to do this create a new file settings.json in project root.

{	
	"facebook": {
		"appId": "",
		"secret": ""
	},
	"twitter": {
		"consumerKey": "",
		"secret": ""
	},
	"google": {
		"clientId": "",
		"secret": ""
	},
	"AWS": {
		"AWSAccessKeyId": "your key",
		"AWSSecretAccessKey": "secret"
	},
	"deploy": "true"
}

• then set this json as environment variable named "METEOR_SETTINGS" using cf env command from cloud foundry tool.
• now restage your app with cf restage myapp for settings to take effect.