VinayaSathyanarayana

How to set up a NodeJS website with Authentication and Back office (and Blog)

In this tutorial we're going to build a NodeJS website with the following features:

• User authentication
• Back office
• Blog (optional)

The first to parts of the tutorial are meant to quickly set you up and running. The third part is a more in depth explanation of some points I find important, so feel free to read them later as you need.

VinayaSathyanarayana

keystonejs notes

Creating custom keystone Lists (models)

• keystone lists or models basically map back to mongodb collections
• each property you add into the model object will become a field in the keystone admin UI. The model itself will become a mongo collection in the db and the fields will also be stored under the collection.
• each property you define in the model needs to have a type. Types are defined by the keystone api. There are many types that are built into keystone a list of them can be found Here

How to create a new list

VinayaSathyanarayana

Creating new Field Types for KeystoneJS

We're currently working on making it easier to add new field types to KeystoneJS as plugins.

In the meantime, if you'd like to work on your own field type, hopefully this guide will point you in the right direction.

Keystone fields require the following:

• a {fieldType}.js file in ./lib/fieldTypes that controls the field and encapsulates options support, underscore functions, validation and updating
• the {fieldType}.js file needs to be included by ./lib/fieldTypes/index.js

VinayaSathyanarayana

// @file signup.jade
// @path /templates/views/user/signup.jade
// @description Form that user sees when signing up.
//

extends ../../layouts/default

block intro
	.container
		h1= 'Sign up for Little B.O.M'

VinayaSathyanarayana

var keystone = require('keystone');
var express = require('express');
var body = require('body-parser');
var helmet = require('helmet');  

var app = express();

app.use(body.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(body.json());
app.use(helmet());

VinayaSathyanarayana

const getRange = (start, end) => {
  let list = []
  if (start <= end) {
    for (let i = start; i <= end; i++)
      list.push(i)
  }
  return list
}

const RepeatableField = (fields, prefix) => ({

VinayaSathyanarayana

var keystone = require('keystone'),
	// pull in the schemaPermissions lib
	// rootRequire is a custom function that fixes the path to always be from the root of the application
	schemaPermissions = rootRequire('lib/schemaPermissions'), 
	Types = keystone.Field.Types;

/**
 * Page Model
 * ==========
 */

VinayaSathyanarayana

//One-to-Many
Post.model.find().where('author', author.id).exec(function(err, posts) {
     // ...
});

//Many-to-Many
Post.model.find().where('categories').in([category.id]).exec(function(err, posts) {
     // ...
});

VinayaSathyanarayana

I've developed a useful feature in KeystoneJS that lets you populate a relationship from either side, while only storing the data on one side, and am looking for feedback on whether it is something that could / should be brought back into mongoose itself. (It might be possible to add as a separate package but I suspect there'd be too much rewriting of mongoose internals for that to be a good idea).

I've added this as an issue in mongoose for consideration: #1888 but am leaving this gist in place because the examples are easier to read.

I've used Posts and Categories as a basic, contrived example to demonstrate what I'm talking about here; in reality you'd rarely load all the posts for a category but there are other real world cases where it's less unreasonable you'd want to do this, and Posts + Categories is an easy way to demo it.

The problem

The built-in population feature is really useful; not just for

VinayaSathyanarayana

Home > Knowledge Base

1. What coding standard should I use when contributing to KeystoneJS?
2. How to Migrate from 0.2.x to 0.3.x|0.2.x-to-0.3.x
3. How to fix 'cannot overwrite model once compiled error' error when testing Keystone|Unregister-a-Mongoose-Model
4. How to Add Keystone to an Already Existing Express App
5. Helpful Gist on how to create RESTful APIs
6. How to Submit Documentation Translations
7. User Model Examples
8. [Deployment Checklist](https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/wiki/Deploym