A presentation to SydJS on how to update and work with http://sydjs.com/

1. SydJS.com for fun
and profit
LACHSTOCK

2. Also known as...

3. How to Update
SydJS.com
in
10 Easy Steps
LACHSTOCK

4. Step 1
Get a GitHub account.

5. What is GitHub?

6. What is GitHub?
“GitHub is the best way to participate in that
collaboration: fork projects, send pull requests,
create issues, and monitor development with all
of your public and private code.”

7. GitHub is
AWESOMESAUCE
FOR YOUR
OPENSOURCE

8. https://github.com/signup/free

9. Step 2
Get a Heroku account.

10. What is Heroku?

11. What is Heroku?
“Heroku provides a platform as a service (PAAS)
for building, deploying, and running cloud apps
using Ruby” [and now, NodeJS.]

12. Heroku is
PAAS
THAT IS
BADASS

13. Sorry about that.

14. https://api.heroku.com/signup

15. Step 3
Install the Heroku Ruby gem.

16. http://docs.heroku.com/heroku-command

17. Step 4
Email Lachlan: lachlan@lachstock.com.au

18. Also free!

19. I need to know:
- your GitHub username
- your Heroku username (it’s your email)

20. Step 5
Check out the repository on GitHub.

21. https://github.com/sydjs/sydjs

22. Step 6
Install the required libraries.

23. Node.JS: http://nodejs.org/

24. npm: http://npmjs.org/

25. Express: http://expressjs.com/

26. Step 7
Write code.

27. Preferably something from the TODO list.

28. https://github.com/sydjs/sydjs/blob/master/TODO.tasks

29. Step 8
Add tests.

30. Some people would suggest you reverse that.

31. Step 7
Add tests.

32. Step 8
Write code.

33. Step 9
Check it works locally.

34. node server.js

35. Step 10
Deploy to the server.

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

37. git push heroku master

38. Counting objects: 5, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 318 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Node app detected
Compiled slug size is 260K
-----> Launching... done
http://sydjs.com deployed to Heroku
To git@heroku.com:sydjs.git
b5d1969..4dfcc49 master -> master

39. Game over,
man, game over.

40. If you get lost...

41. Both services have great help documentation.

42. http://help.github.com/
Step 2: http://help.github.com/

43. http://docs.heroku.com/
Step 2: http://help.github.com/

44. And there is always the mailing list!

45. http://librelist.com/browser/sydjs/

46. Email sydjs@librelist.com to join.

47. If you want to help but get stuck...

48. And the mailing list can’t help...

49. Bring your laptop next meeting & I’ll hook you up.

50. The slides are at:
http://slideshare.net/lachlanhardy/sydjscom

51. Questions?