Boardino

What is Boardino?

Boardino is a board where several people can accommodate notes and draw in real time. The best way to see how it works is to use it, go to create a new Boardino and share the address with anyone else or just put it in another window, perform actions and see how it behaves. Boardino as a board is ideal for organizing projects, activities, kanban boards, teach a class remotely or play triki.

How it works?

Boardino is a django project with a high component in javascript for the front-end that does all the real-time activity using websockets tornadio2 (python). When any action is performed on the interface of a Boardino, it sends a message to other users of that Boardino to upgrade your interface for the server side in django database is updated so that the data remaining board designs and any new or returning user can view the board and start using it since its last state.

What includes this repository?

This repository contains django models, views, urls and Boardino APIs to work. In the templates directory, is the main html and /static folder that includes style sheets and javascript files, and generated files with Boardino-frontend.

Instalation

It works with Python 2.7.

Clone boardino git clone https://github.com/mapale/boardino.git

Install virtualenv sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Make a directory to save virtual envs mkdir virtual_envs

Create a virtual env to boardino virtualenv virt_envs/boardino --no-site-packages

Activate virtual env source virt_envs/boardino/bin/activate

Install MySQL-python pip install MySQL-python

You can desactivate virtual env when you finish to work with boardino deactivate

Go to boardino directory cd boardino

Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a database 'whiteboard' mysqladmin -u root -p create whiteboard

Configure database (Accept to create the user) python manage.py syncdb

Apply migrations python manage.py migrate

Run server python manage.py runserver

Now, you see:

Validating models...

0 errors found
September 28, 2013 - 12:53:23
Django version 1.5.4, using settings 'settings'
Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

Voila! You have boardino working!

Repositories

Boardino: https://github.com/mapale/boardino Includes django project and application javascrpit generated by boardino-frontend

Boardino-frontend: https://github.com/mapale/boardino-frontend Includes project javascript boardino-frontend.

Open-pusher: https://github.com/mapale/open-pusher Includes Websockets server (tornadio2).