CrowdSTF Manager

Manage CrowdSTF devices, tokens, and hit allocation from a web UI. Visualize device streams from CrowdSTF in real-time.

app.js - the application start script
config.json - a required configuration file (see config-example.json)
package.json - node back-end library dependency config
bower.json - node front-end library dependency config
public/ - static resources made available to web clients
- js/ - javascripts
  - app - angular module config and route config
  - controllers - angular web UI scope implementation
  - services.js - http and websocket data
- css/ - style sheets
routes/ - web facing URI implementation
- api - REST api routes
- index - root web routes
- socket - websocket emitter
services/ - data service implementation
- dbService - manages db connections
- pollingService - manages device polling and automated HIT creation
- stfService - manages CrowdSTF data
- turkHitService - manages HIT creation
views - jade templates for creating HTML views
- modules/ - refreshless modules for the index route
  - tokens.jade
  - usageStream.jade
- index.jade - main site view
- layout.jade - boilerplate layout
- task.jade - turk task (changes to this will appear on turk hits)

Installation

Install CrowdSTF and its dependencies.

Install NodeJS from nodejs.org or node version manager. Supported version is node v4.1.2.

Verify the node version

node --version  #should read v4.1.2

Install the npm dependencies

# at the project root
npm install

Install the bower dependencies

# at the project root
bower install

Create a config.json

# at the project root
cp config-example.json config.json
# remove comments and configure

Start RethinkDB

rethinkdb --directory ./rethinkdb_data/

Launch CrowdSTF Manager

node app.js