Adds commander CLI

- Adds support for --config, --port --allowInsecureHTTP
- Adds support for PARSE_DASHBOARD_ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP
- Adds npm start script for easy deployments

Author: flovilmart

Parse-Dashboard/index.js

@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@
  * This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
  * the root directory of this source tree.
  */
+// Command line tool for npm start
+
+var DEFAULT_DASHBOARD_CONFIG = __dirname + '/parse-dashboard-config.json';
+
+var program = require("commander");
+program.option('--port [port]', "the port to run parse-dashboard");
+program.option('--config [config]', "the path to the configuration file");
+program.option('--allowInsecureHTTP [allowInsecureHTTP]', 'set that flag when parse server is behind an HTTPS load balancer/proxy');
+
+program.parse(process.argv);
+
+// collect the variables
+var configFile = program.config || DEFAULT_DASHBOARD_CONFIG;
+var port = program.port || process.env.PORT;
+var allowInsecureHTTP = program.allowInsecureHTTP || process.env.PARSE_DASHBOARD_ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP;
+
 var basicAuth = require('basic-auth');
 var jsonFile = require('json-file-plus');
 var express = require('express');
@@ -14,7 +30,7 @@ var app = express();
 app.use(express.static('Parse-Dashboard/public'));
 
 app.get('/parse-dashboard-config.json', function(req, res) {
-  jsonFile(__dirname + '/parse-dashboard-config.json')
+  jsonFile(configFile)
   .then(config => {
     var response = {apps: config.data.apps};
     var users = config.data.users;
@@ -28,7 +44,7 @@ app.get('/parse-dashboard-config.json', function(req, res) {
       req.connection.remoteAddress === '127.0.0.1' ||
       req.connection.remoteAddress === '::ffff:127.0.0.1' ||
       req.connection.remoteAddress === '::1';
-    if (!requestIsLocal && !req.secure) {
+    if (!requestIsLocal && !req.secure && !allowInsecureHTTP) {
       //Disallow HTTP requests except on localhost, to prevent the master key from being transmitted in cleartext
       return res.send({ success: false, error: 'Parse Dashboard can only be remotely accessed via HTTPS' });
     }
@@ -85,4 +101,4 @@ app.get('/*', function(req, res) {
 });
 
 // Start the server, listening to port 4040.
-app.listen(process.env.PORT || 4040);
+app.listen(port || 4040);

README.md

@@ -78,6 +78,31 @@ If you want to require a username and password to access the dashboard, you can
 
 HTTPS and Basic Auth are mandatory if you are accessing the dashboard remotely instead of accessing it from `localhost`.
 
+## Deploying in production
+
+If you're deploying to a provider like Heroku, or Google App Engine, the SSL endpoint is terminated early and handled by the provider and you may encounter this error `Parse Dashboard can only be remotely accessed via HTTPS`. 
+
+:warning: :warning: Before going further, make sure your server **cannot** be reachable via **HTTP**. See the provider documentation for force HTTPS connections to your deployment.
+
+Set the environment variable to PARSE_DASHBOARD_ALLOW_INSECURE_HTTP=1 to tell parse server to skip the secure tests.
+
+To start your server use:
+
+`$ npm start`
+
+
+Optionally you can use the command line arguments:
+
+`$ npm start -- --config path/to/config.json --port 8080 --allowInsecureHTTP=1`
+
+All paramters are optional and their default values are:
+
+
+	config: parse-dashboard/Parse-Dashboard/parse-dashboard-config.json
+	port: 4040
+	allowInsecureHTTP: false
+
+
 ## Contributing
 
 We really want Parse to be yours, to see it grow and thrive in the open source community. Please see the [Contributing to Parse Dashboard guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

package.json

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "babel-runtime": "~5.8.25",
     "basic-auth": "^1.0.3",
+    "commander": "^2.9.0",
     "express": "^4.13.4",
     "history": "~1.9.1",
     "immutable": "~3.7.5",
@@ -39,7 +40,9 @@
     "build": "NODE_ENV=production webpack --config production.config.js && webpack --config PIG.config.js",
     "test": "NODE_PATH=./node_modules jest",
     "generate": "node scripts/generate.js",
-    "preinstall": "git update-index --skip-worktree Parse-Dashboard/parse-dashboard-config.json"
+    "preinstall": "git update-index --skip-worktree Parse-Dashboard/parse-dashboard-config.json",
+    "prestart": "webpack --config build.config.js --progress",
+    "start": "node ./Parse-Dashboard/index.js"
   },
   "jest": {
     "testPathDirs": [