MailChimp Simple Signup
Version: 0.2

Features:

• facebook information subscription of MailChimp list
• grabs email, fname, and lname – for now
• simple error reporting letting the user know which lists are incompatible and why
  • the list form must not require any other fields than EMAIL/FNAME/LNAME
  • it also must use the EMAIl/FNAME/LNAME field tag convention
• default facebook button theme
• button customization – text/font/font-size/padding/opt-in/scrolling/colors/width

Ideas:

• other fields to be grabbed from fbook, location(zip)?,website? derp?
• Other OAuth providers?

TODO:

• make unit tests not collide again… currently must be run one at a time. =(

Dev environment setup:

1. create couchDBs somewhere and hookup to config/database.js
2. register MailChimp dev/pro Oauth applications and hookup to config/oauth.js
3. plug in API keys for each MC account for async testing in test/models/factory/user.js
4. set up proper facebook app ids and basepaths in app/server.js (dev/testing/staging/production)
5. $ npm install
6. expresso test/models/*
7. expresso test/controllers/*

Some notes about that:

• follow corresponding *Example.js for 1-3 above
• user_id and list_id in test/models/subscription have not been moved to factory yet
• the same goes for statically coded ids in test/controllers/subscription_controller
• The MC Oauth application requires 127.0.0.1 for dev testing redirect_urls
• Facebook apps require localhost for dev testing
  • as such, there are now two URLs to be specified in the development env section of app/server.js to help match both of these requirements
  • server.basepath is used in dev to generate MC-specific links
  • server.facebook_basepath is used in dev to make the button UI work from views/welcome/dashboard

design notes

• this is some kind of MVC/Model2 thing… hopefully it gets the point across