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https://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet
A realtime editor for curating data as a team.
https://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet
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A realtime editor for curating data as a team.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet
- Owner: flatsheet
- License: mit
- Created: 2014-08-29T03:44:45.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-02-28T21:29:59.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-14T21:46:36.689Z (8 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 10.4 MB
- Stars: 201
- Watchers: 14
- Forks: 19
- Open Issues: 69
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
# flatsheet
> A realtime editor for curating data as a team. [flatsheet.io](http://flatsheet.io)
- **[flatsheet on Github](http://github.com/flatsheet)**
- **[Discussions, tasks, and issue reporting](http://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet/issues)**
- **[Chat on Gitter](https://gitter.im/flatsheet/flatsheet)**
- **[Contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md)**
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## Current status
This version of Flatsheet is an **in-progress** rewrite using Node.js. The first version of Flatsheet was a [Ruby on Rails prototype](https://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet-prototype).
Many aspects of the project are incomplete, but things are far enough along that it will be useful if you want to install it and **experiment in a development environment**.
Want to see an early demo of the real-time editor? Go here: http://flatsheet-realtime.herokuapp.com/
### Todos:
Open issues represent current todo list: [github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet/issues](http://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet/issues)
## Getting started
There are two ways to get flatsheet running:
## Option 1: clone the flatsheet repository
Cloning the repo is best for testing things out & developing flatsheet, but works fine for other purposes. You just have to be prepared to manually pull & merge changes to your server.
### Steps:
- clone this repo: `git clone [email protected]:flatsheet/flatsheet.git`
- change directory: `cd flatsheet`
- run `npm install`
- next you can follow the readme from here: https://github.com/flatsheet/flatsheet#create-an-admin-user
## Option 2: use flatsheet as an npm dependency
This is a good option for when you're using flatsheet in production, because you can make use of npm to install and update flatsheet.
### Steps:
- Create a directory name `flatsheet` for your project (or whatever you like)
- Change directory `cd flatsheet`
- Create a package.json file with `npm init`
- Install flatsheet with npm: `npm install flatsheet --save`
- Install the response module: `npm install response --save`
### File/folder setup
- Create a folder named `data`: `mkdir data`
- Create a app.js file with this code:
```javascript
var server = require('flatsheet')({
site: {
title: 'flatsheet',
email: '[email protected]',
url: 'http://127.0.0.1:3333',
contact: 'your full name'
},
db: __dirname + '/data'
});
server.listen();
```
- Create a .env file for secret config like sendgrid username/password:
```
SENDGRID_USER=yourusername
SENDGRID_PASS=yourpassword
```
- Add a `flatsheet` script and a `start` script to the `scripts` field in your package.json file:
```json
"scripts": {
"flatsheet": "flatsheet",
"start": "node app.js"
},
```
- So your full package.json file should look something like this:
```
{
"name": "flatsheet-example",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "app.js",
"scripts": {
"flatsheet": "flatsheet",
"start": "node app.js"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC"
}
```
- next create an admin user:
### Create an admin user
- Create an admin account by running `npm run flatsheet accounts create-admin`. You'll be prompted for email, username, & password.
- You can run `npm run flatsheet accounts list` to see that your admin account was created.
### Start the server
- Now run `npm start` to start the server.
- In development you can watch the css & js using `npm run watch`.
- In development you can debug runnig `npm run-script debug`. You add breakpoints in the code with `debugger`
- Go to `http://127.0.0.1:3333` and log in with the admin account credentials.
### Create a sheet
- Log in
- Click the **New blank sheet** button
- Fill out the name and description
### Invite users
- Navigate to `http://127.0.0.1:3333/accounts/invite`
- Enter email addresses, one address per line
- Click "Send invitation"
- Users will receive an email with a link they can click to create accounts
## Support
This project is supported in part by a [code sprint grant from OpenNews](http://opennews.org/codesprints.html).
More info [at the Flatsheet blog](http://flatsheet.io/blog/getting-flatsheet-to-v1-with-help-from-opennews/).
## License
[MIT](LICENSE.md)