Mobile app skeleton built on spine.mobile using the API from TheGivingLab. The app comes with authentication, sign up and sign in out of the box and is intended to serve as a starting point for anyone building mobile apps using TheGivingLab API.

• Sign up with name, email and password
• Sign up via facebook
• Sign in with email and password
• Sign in via facebook
• Show the users profile
• HTML5 local storage for persistent sessions across app restart

Spine.mobile uses hem to build and package the app, which requires nodejs and npm to be installed.

Other than that you need an API key from TheGivingLab and you need to create a Facebook app. For a very easy way of deploying your app, tick the box Yes, I would like free web hosting provided by Heroku and choose Node.js as the environment when registering the Facebook app.

The only configuration required is setting up your TheGivingLab API key and facebook app id. hem will read them either from app/environment.env or from the FACEBOOK_APP_ID and GIVINGLAB_API_KEY environment variables, which take precedence.

Create a (non-versioned) file .env in the root directory of your app with the following content (replace with your API keys):

FACEBOOK_APP_ID="YOUR-FACEBOOK-APP-ID"
GIVINGLAB_API_KEY="YOUR-GIVINGLAB-API-KEY"

foreman will automatically pick up this .env file and hem will use these these values when building the static app.

This will require you to manually export the FACEBOOK_APP_ID and GIVINGLAB_API_KEY environment variables or edit app/environment.env.

Install hem (if you don't have it already):

npm install -g hem

Install dependencies:

npm install

Install foreman (if you don't have it already):

gem install foreman

Run the development server:

foreman start dev

Build the (static) app:

foreman run hem build

Serve up the static app:

foreman start web

Run the development server:

hem server

Build the (static) app:

hem build

Serve up the static app:

serveup ./public

Heroku requires the static app to be built - which is recommended anyway for performance reasons. Do not commit and push public/application.js and application.css to a public repository, since they will contain your API keys. Instead use a separate branch (we'll call it heroku) that you only push to heroku.

Build the app:

foreman run hem build

Switch to your heroku branch:

git checkout heroku

Commit that static app:

git add public/application.{css,js}
git commit -m "Build static app"

Deploy to heroku:

git push -f heroku heroku:master

Your app is live on the web!