• Applicable skills TBD
• Slack #gh-pledgeservice
• Project lead @sean

The majority of the site is just basic static content, as it should be. That markup lives in "markup/" in the form of jade files. If you don't know what those are, they're very simple, and remove literally 50% of HTML's boilerplate so they're worth it. Read the 3 minute tutorial.

Stylesheets are in "stylesheets/" as sass files. See last paragraph for why that's good.

Ideally there will be little enough JS that no framework will be necessary (fingers crossed).

The backend will be very simple with two endpoints

1. Pledge. This has to be done in coordination with stripe so that stripe stores the credit card info, and we only store an opaque token and the pledge amount. This will write to what'll be probably the only table in the datastore.
2. GetTotal: Simple sum over pledges. Store it in memcache, expire every few minutes. Boom.

• Python App Engine SDK
• NPM
• sass (with ruby installed, gem install sass)

After checking out the code, run npm install. To start the server, run npm start and go to http://localhost:8080. That's it!

After running npm install and grunt local, copy build/config.json over to backend/ and run python testrunner.py in the project's root directory.

(Test have not been run on this codebase for a while. . . )

We have 4 deployment environments available, all of which can be set up with grunt (installed by npm).

• local: For normal development, with code updates on every reload. Run npm start or equivalently node_modules/.bin/grunt local.

  • Note that in local mode, you can't actually send a transaction to stripe due to an SSL bug in dev_appserver. But you can get right up to that point before it fails, which is generally good enough.

• dev: This is an independant instance of the app running at https://pledge-test.lessig2016.us/pledge.. We can do whatever we want here because the data's all fake. It also uses Stripe's test keys, so feel free to submit test transactions with credit card 4242 4242 4242 4242. To deploy, run ./node_modules/.bin/grunt dev, and then appcfg.py --oauth2 update build/. When testing, it works best to hit this URL: https://pledge-test.lessig2016.us/pledge.

• lessig: The real McCoy. Don't break it. To deploy, run ./node_modules/.bin/grunt lessig, and then appcfg.py --oauth2 update build/.

If npm start generates an out of files error and prints a lot of messages like this:

Warning: EMFILE: Too many opened files.

You probably have an orphan app engine process running. Try looking for and killing any child processes. Worst case, you may need to increase your inotify maximums; you can do that on a Linux system with this command:

echo 1024 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances

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