An extensible, general-purpose web server for serving LTI apps for SFU Canvas.
- libraryReserves: displays the items on reserve at the SFU Library for a given Canvas course
- courseDescription: allows a user to embed the official SFU Academic Calendar course description in a page by clicking a button in the rich text editor.
To add an app, simply create a new folder in ./components. Put your app logic (routes, etc) in ./components/[YOUR_APP]/index.js. You can create a public folder to hold your static assets; this will become automatically available at http://SERVER/YOUR_APP/{javascripts,stylesheets,images,etc}/FILENAME. Create a views folder for your views. In order to render views, you must explicitly tell res.render() where to find them: res.render(path.join(__dirname, 'views/index')).
Look at components/libraryReserves or components/courseDescription for examples. There are probably better ways to do this, but it works.
To deploy to your localhost for development, NODE_ENV=development node app. For convenience, you may want to create a configuration-dev.xml file for your LTI app so you don't have to keep modifying your production one to point to your workstation. Note that configuration-dev.xml is in .gitignore.
To deploy to staging or production, use Bamboo.