Hackerspaces Status Wall

Shows the status of hackerspaces that implement the hackerspace status API. It uses a directory API to find the available endpoints. Displays recent tweets from the spaces.

It is currently hosted at hackerspaces.me

Error Reporting

A second aim of this page is to display any errors or potential problems with a particular spaces API.

Technologies Used

• Node.js
• Express
• CoffeeScript
• Jade
• Less
• MongoDB

Playing With It

Once downloaded, dependencies can be installed using npm:

$ npm install

The application uses MongoDb and this should be started first:

$ mongod

There is no migration infrastructure but the database can be created with the following command:

$ coffee tasks/create_database.coffee

To be deployable on Heroku a Procfile is used and the web service can be started by foreman:

$ foreman start

Tests

Some integration tests connect to a database and so the mongo daemon should be started first:

$ mongod

All tests can be run with:

$ npm test