InvitableUser

StrongLoop LoopBack based infrastructure for user invitation logic, using Mandrill as email service.

Files to copy

server/boot/roles.js
server/boot/email.js
server/models/invite.json
server/models/invite.js
server/models/invitable_user.json
server/models/invitable_user.js

Files to edit edit

.env

Add to your environmental configuration files the following information:

EMAIL_USER=[mandril registration email]
EMAIL_PASS=[mandril secret]
SECRET=[a random string]

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server/boot/roles.js

Add your application roles, row 4:

var ROLES = ['admin', 'editor', 'author'];

then modify your default admin information and credentials, row 6 and followings:

var DEFAULT_ADMIN = {
  fullname: 'Main Admin',
  isMainAdmin: true,
  role: 'admin',
  password: '123',
  email: 'admin@x-project.com'
};

and specify which model extends the InvitableUser base model.

var model = 'Member';

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server/model-config.json

Be sure your AccassToken, ACL, RoleMapping and Role models are stored onto DB and not public, Invite, Email and InvitableUser or its extension models are configured:

"AccessToken": {
  "dataSource": "mongo",
  "public": false
},
"ACL": {
  "dataSource": "mongo",
  "public": false
},
"RoleMapping": {
  "dataSource": "mongo",
  "public": false
},
"Role": {
  "dataSource": "mongo",
  "public": false
},
"Email": {
  "dataSource": "email",
  "public": false
},
"Invite": {
  "dataSource": "mongo"
},
"InvitableUser": {
  "dataSource": mongo"
}

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server/datasources.json

Add the email datasource configuration:

  "email": {
    "name": "email",
    "connector": "mail",
    "transports": [{
      "type": "smtp",
      "host": "smtp.mandrillapp.com",
      "secure": false,
      "port": 587,
      "tls": {
        "rejectUnauthorized": false
      }
    }]
  }

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server/config.json

Be sure that enableHttpContex is true:

"remoting": {
  "context": {
    "enableHttpContext": true
  },
  ...
}

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Clientside available components

On the clientside the following components are available (once InvitableUser is extended by Member model):

• admin/page-invite
• admin/page-login
• admin/page-member
• admin/page-settings
• admin/page-signup
• admin/page-team
• admin/part-date