Slide notes from Desert Code Camp 2014. This talk focuses on using the MEAN Stack to build an app that uses Facebook authentication for access, demonstrates advanced permissions for reading an authenticated user's Facebook data, and generating a data visualization using the D3.js library and custom Angular directives.

1. Will Button - @wfbutton
Practical MongoDB

2. From template to
production
Many resources exist for individual components.
Getting them to work together is a different story.

3. {
name: ‘Will Button’,
contact: [twitter: ‘@wfbutton’, email: ‘willb@mylist.com’, web: ‘www.two4seven.me’],
role: [‘dev’, ‘ops’, ‘it’],
company: ‘myList.com’
}

4. mean stack
facebook
passport.js
d3.js

5. The problem.
Participants competing in a challenge log meals, workouts and health data into a private Facebook group
Facebook newsfeed algorithm
No reporting
Don’t want to lose demographics
Can we use existing frameworks to make it
better without losing the parts that work well?

6. The solution.
Tools and
Technologies
Practical
Application

8. Step 1: MEAN Stack
Template
git clone http://github.com/linnovate/mean.git

9. Connecting Facebook…
https://developers.facebook.com/apps

10. Configure passport

11. Facebook Permissions
Default: profile, friends list, email
Can’t read newsfeed by default
Reading newsfeed requires valid
accessToken

12. Facebook Permissions
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/faceboo
k-login/permissions/

13. What about this
accessToken thing?
> db.users.findOne({ provider: "facebook" })
{
"__v" : 0,
"_id" : ObjectId("52f6fc252ae38687577cc688"),
"currentchallenge" : ObjectId("5308d9756d7d30a94b681b2d"),
"email" : "will@paleotracking.com",
"facebook" : {
"username" : "will.button.56",
"updated_time" : "2014-01-06T22:33:03+0000",
"verified" : true,
"locale" : "en_US",
"timezone" : -7,
"email" : "wfbutton@gmail.com",
"gender" : "male",
"education" : [
{ "type" : "High School", "school" : { "name" : "Sidney High School", "id" : "110094965686846" } }
],
"favorite_athletes" : [
{ "name" : "CrossFit Endurance", "id" : "182015510972" },
{ "name" : "Lucas Parker", "id" : "346667935460586" }
],
"favorite_teams" : [
{ "name" : "Dallas Cowboys", "id" : "99559607813" }
],
"work" : [
{ "start_date" : "0000-00", "employer" : { "name" : "myList", "id" : "105017792957809" } },
{ "end_date" : "0000-00", "start_date" : "2004-07-01", "employer" : { "name" : "NightHawk Radiology Services", "id" :
"115173631830635" } }
],
"bio" : "CrossFit Level 1 (CF-L1) Trainer",
"location" : { "name" : "Jost Van Dyke, British Virgin Islands", "id" : "327610993996350" },
"hometown" : { "name" : "Sidney, Texas", "id" : "108011082555210" },
"link" : "https://www.facebook.com/will.button.56",
"last_name" : "Button",
"first_name" : "Will",
"name" : "Will Button",
"id" : "100001902024344"
},
"name" : "Will Button",
"provider" : "facebook",
"username" : "will.button.56"
All of this for FREE
$$$$
But no accessToken


14. Passport.js
Refreshes oauth
accessToken
on login
YIKES!
Functional, but
not scalable.

15. User.js Model
Updated user.js
model to store
accessToken

16. Using Facebook OpenGraph

17. Displaying Entries

20. Stored Documents
{
"user" :
ObjectId("52f6fc252ae38687577cc688"),
"message" : "I ate my stuff",
"challenge" :
ObjectId("5302e4e445bae1611e2e60d9"),
"_id" :
ObjectId("53125a106184fe00006e46d6"),
"likes" : {
"data" : [ ]
},
"comments" : {
"data" : [ ]
},
"updated_time" : ISODate("2014-03-
01T22:07:12.442Z"),
"created_time" : ISODate("2014-03-
01T22:07:12.442Z"),
"__v" : 0

21. Journal Data Model
var JournalSchema = new Schema({
created_time: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now
},
updated_time: {
type: Date,
default: Date.now
},
message: {
type: String
},
comments: {
data: [CommentSchema]
},
likes: {
data: [LikesSchema]
},
user: {
type: Schema.ObjectId,
ref: 'User'
},
challenge: {
type: Schema.ObjectId,
ref: 'Challenge'
}
});
var LikesSchema = new Schema({
id: {
type: String
},
name: {
type: String
}
});

22. Controller (part of it anyway)

23. All accessible via Routes

24. Recap: Where are we now?

25. Reporting

26. Aggregation Framework

27. Aggregation : Quick Review
Pipeline for multiple stages of document transformations for producing aggregated results
Name Description
$project Reshapes a document stream. $project can rename, add, or remove fields as well as create
computed values and sub-documents.
$match Filters the document stream, and only allows matching documents to pass into the next
pipeline stage. $match uses standard MongoDB queries.
$limit Restricts the number of documents in an aggregation pipeline.
$skip Skips over a specified number of documents from the pipeline and returns the rest.
$unwind Takes an array of documents and returns them as a stream of documents.
$group Groups documents together for the purpose of calculating aggregate values based on a
collection of documents.
$sort Takes all input documents and returns them in a stream of sorted documents.
$geoNear Returns an ordered stream of documents based on proximity to a geospatial point.

28. db.journals.aggregate(
{ $group:
{ _id: "$from.name", numposts: { $sum: 1 } }
},
{ $project:
{ who: "$from.name", numposts: 1 } },
{ $sort:
{_id: 1 }
}
)
{
"result" : [
{
"_id" : "Andrew",
"numposts" : 83
},
{
"_id" : "Ben",
"numposts" : 108
},
########### results truncated for brevity ##########
{
"_id" : "Tara",
"numposts" : 20
},
{
"_id" : "Will",
"numposts" : 26
}
],
"ok" : 1
}

29. Accessible via:
http://localhost:3000/journals/ppu

30. Page is
rendered By a
controller
With a
directive
Using D3
injected as a
service

31. The Controller
angular.module('mean.reports').controller('ReportsController', ['$scope', '$http', function($scope, $http){
$http({
method: 'GET',
url: '/journals/ppu'
}).then(function(data, status) {
$scope.d3Data = data.data;
});
}]);

32. d3Bars Directive
this
gets normalized to

33. d3Bars Directive
D3 library injected as
a service

34. The d3 service is accessible
because we add the service to our
footer
And inject it as a
dependency

35. The service itself simply
downloads d3.js

36. Directives are just reusable pieces of code
Restrict where the
directive can be used
A/E/C
Scope refers to the type of isolated scope:
=  two way data binding with the parent DOM object
@  one way data binding with the parent DOM object
&  expression binding with the parent DOM object

37. link is basically
a controller
variables either specified
on declaration or use
defaults

39. Where do we go from here?

40. Where do we go from here?
Add new
aggregation queries
to journals controller
Build new reports/d3
visualizations in
directives.js
Add directives to any page:
<d3-bars data="d3Data”></d3-bars>

41. The mistakes people I
make.
Request the right
Facebook
permissions
Setup your
Facebook
Developers Account
Make your Facebook app
public (at least for a few
minutes)
Facebook Graph
Explorer
Hardcode dummy
data first.
Don’t assume
.success(), wait for it
.then()

42. Do
this
now:
• Clone the MEAN stack
• Stub out dummy data
• Build a d3 graph
• Stick around

43. www.two4seven.me/dcc
@wfbutton