Zenboard: teamwork made easy

Zenboard

Try it out here http://zenbrd.herokuapp.com/

Why Zenboard?

We believe that your team can achieve great things.

You don't need the world's most talented individuals, but you do need laser focus, deep collaboration and "user-centricity".

Zenboard is a team board that makes all of this easier. Read more here.

Status

Zenboard is currently v0.4. There will be bugs. Archiving is not yet implemented.

Create your own board in 10 minutes

Zenboard is lightweight - suitable for hosting on a free Heroku account. (If you want to host elsewhere check this guide).

You will need Git installed locally. You can download it here.

Clone the Zenboard repo

git clone https://github.com/mhumph/zenboard.git
cd zenboard

Signup for a Heroku account

Install the Heroku CLI

Make sure you've logged in to Heroku CLI and created the app

heroku login
heroku create

Provision JawsDB (MySQL): heroku addons:create jawsdb

Deploy Zenboard to Heroku: git push heroku master

Open Zenboard in a browser: heroku open

More info

Heroku's getting started guide for Node.js is here.

To host Zenboard elsewhere

All you need is MySQL and a server supporting Node.js. In most cases:

minimal server resources will be needed, as there will be relatively few requests per minute
high availability / clustering / load balancing won't be needed

NOTE: If the app doesn't find the necessary MySQL tables, then it will automatically create them. The schema to contain them must already exist though - see config/db-config.js