Crowd Jigsaw is an online game, where multiple players work together to figure out a complex jigsaw puzzle. Designed to be an Application of Crowd Wisdom/Collective Intelligence As a Refactored Version of Crowd Jigsaw Puzzle

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@Symbolk

@Yuhan Wei

@Xinyue Zhang

Language :

[Javascript/Paperscript/Html5/CSS3]

Based on :

Express Mongodb paper.js MDL FontAwesome

Requirements :

OS: Windows/Linux/iOS/Android

Chrome ~59.0/Safari

Node.js ~6.11.0

Express ~4.15.0

Mongodb ~3.4.7

P.S. See npm dependencies in package.json

0, Set the env as development:

# windows
set NODE_ENV=development
# linux/macOS
export NODE_ENV=development

1, Start mongodb service with the command:

# Make a new folder as your database, e.g. d:\database in Windows
mongod --dbpath d:\database

2, Create the database required in another CMD:

# get into the interactive shell of mongodb
mongo
# create the userinfo database
> use userinfo;
# check the current database
> show dbs;
> db;

3, Under the project folder, install the package dependencies:

cd CrowdJigsaw
npm install

4, Start the server:

# test or debug it locally(automatically restart server once code changed)
npm test
# or use nodemon directly
nodemon app.js

5, Go http://localhost:3000/ in Chrome to see the client.

0, Set the env as production:

# windows
set NODE_ENV=production
# linux/macOS
export NODE_ENV=production

1, Start mongodb service with the command:

# Make a new folder as your database, e.g. /var/www/database
nohup mongod --dbpath /var/www/database &

2, Edit config.pro.js in the end:

    ...
    database: 'mongodb://localhost:27017/CrowdJigsaw',    
    url: 'http://SERVERIP:3000/'
  };
3, Start the server:

```sh
# install forever first
npm install forever -g
# start it
npm start
# or use forever
forever start app.js

3, Go http://SERVERIP:3000/ in Chrome to see the client.