App Store

Demo:[https://appstore-meteor.herokuapp.com]

Introduction

• Designed and implemented an App Store with data-driven application architecture, Agile development and REST API.
• Built a crawler which crawled app information from Huawei app store(100 pages/second), and stored in MongoDB.
• Implemented front-end with React.js (ES6) and supported category view, auto loading and recommendation of relevant apps.
• Implemented back-end with Meteor.js Framework and data exchange with front-end using Publish/Subscribe mechanism.
• Stacks: Meteor.js, React.js, MongoDB, Python and deployed on Heroku: https://appstore-meteor.heroku.com

Data flow

Index Page

App Page

Deploy on Heroku

1.Register account on Heroku and mLab

Heroku: http://bit.ly/2crdS6j mLab: https://mlab.com/signup

2.Initialize the project as a Git repository

git init

3.Install Heroku on your computer

Mac: curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

4.Open the root folder of you Meteor project in console, login to Heroku from command line

heroku login

5.Create new Heroku application

heroku create <appname> --stack cedar --buildpack https://github.com/oortcloud/heroku-buildpack-meteorite

6.Register account on mLab https://mlab.com/signup/

7.Export MongoDB to bson file

mongodump -d <database name> -o <directory_backup>

8.Create a collection on mLab

9.Import you MongoDB to mLab

mongorestore -h ds0<your_ID>.mlab.com:<your_ID> -d <collection_name>-c apps -u <user> -p <password> <bson_file_name>

10.Setup MONGO_URL for your Meteor application

heroku config:set MONGO_URL=mongodb://<username>:<password>@ds0<your_ID>.mongolab.com:<your_ID>/<dbname>

11.Set the root URL

heroku config:set ROOT_URL=http://<appname>.herokuapp.com

12.Add the Heroku Git repository as another remote to your git repository and push the code to that remote.

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:appname.git

13.Push to the server

git push heroku master

14.The application will be automatically deployed and becomes accessible on appname.herokuapp.com.