ElCapChallenge is a simple website that we used at Auburn University for an (indoor) rock climbing challenge where climbers were challenged to climb 2900 feet (or 58 pitches in our rec center) in two weeks. The name of the challenge is because 2900 feet is roughly the height of the famous route The Nose at El Capitan mountain in Yosemite, CA.

The website allows climbers to login with Facebook and record their pitches using their cellphones or computers. It also features an Eagle's-eye View where most recently updated climbers' progress is shown and their pictures are overlayed on a images of El Capitan (like floating heads :D). Administrators can create, enable, and disable routes, approve/discard recorded pitches, or generate reports.

Here's a screenshot for "Eagle's-eye View" but take a look at screenshots directory for other views.

Go + MongoDB on service side, and React.js/Flux for front-end. Some components are actually handled by Bootstrap.js and are not purely reactive. I wish I know about React Bootstrap before I started.

Sure! The website is free to use by anybody, open sourced under BSD 3-Clause License.

You need a server (either physical or cloud) that runs Linux or Unix. The website is built with Go and javascript, and uses mongodb. So you need a Go compiler, node.js/npm, and mongodb. We used Ubuntu 14.04 but any recent Linux/Unix should work. All these mentioned above are free and open source except maybe the server itself.

You need a config.json. For example:

{
  "fb_app_id"      : "<your facebook APP id>",
  "fb_app_secret"  : "<your facebook App secret>",
  "laddr_https"    : "0.0.0.0:443",
  "db_name"        : "elcap_prod",
  "db_addr"        : "localhost",
  "ca_cert"        : "certs/server.crt",
  "ca_key"         : "certs/server.key",
  "ui_path"        : "static",
  "require_approve": true
}

Also, you need to change the appId to your Facebook APP ID in javascript code, particularly file static/js/lib/stores/fb_login.js

make in static/js pulls dependencies and builds bundle.js, which is essentially the front-end.

You will also need a valid SSL certificate if you run the server barely. We used Cloudflare's free plan as CDN. It issues a SSL certificate for free, and we use a self-signed certificate for communication between Cloudflare and our server.

No. Contributions welcomed :D

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