This project is an example of a server-side and client-side implementation of the Dart language to create, edit, and remove pages dynamically.

Dart is a flexible language that can act as both a server-side script-driven language while also running in a light VM on the client very similar to Javascript.

This project was conducted as a side project to learn about the language and contains a working example of a CMS from start to finish.

The dart-sdk must be installed on the device running the server. Proper setup of the sdk ensures the pub serve and dart dartfile.dart commands to work properly.

A MongoDB database must be running on the server, using the default port. This database should be setup with collections of {username, password, unique_key} for the authentication server to use. Otherwise, the database can be left empty.

Run the shell (launch.sh and launch-servers.sh) files to launch the servers used for authentication, querying the database, and reading from the database along with the main project served through dart pub. Note that this implementation is modular and could be changed out for an OAuth protocol instead of conducting the authentication explicitly, for example.

Users will login to the page located at root. This is the entry point. If the validation of user-provided data is successful, a session key will be returned and stored as a cookie. The user is redirected to /app/ where the cookie is read back in and Dart polymer components initialized. Users can click and drag components in the left element pane, edit content, etc. to produce a page.

The resulting user operations will be pushed as JSON to the dataserver and stored in the MongoDB database. A shell will be constructed in the /u/ directory. When this page is queried publicly (outside the editor), the database will be called, content will be loaded, and the view will be constructed.

Note: In order to deploy the server, make sure all host references are correct.