Ground work for the bill board announcement feature

client/main.js

@@ -612,4 +612,38 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
     // Repo
     window.location = 'https://github.com/freecodecamp/freecodecamp/';
   });
+
+  function getCurrentBillBoard(cb) {
+    $.ajax({
+      url: '/billboard',
+      method: 'GET',
+      dataType: 'JSON'
+    }).done((resp) => {
+      cb(resp);
+    });
+  }
+
+  function handleNewBillBoard(message) {
+    const seen = typeof localStorage.getItem('billboardSeen') !== "undefined" ? localStorage.getItem('billboardSeen') : 'false';
+    let old = typeof localStorage.getItem('billboard') !== "undefined" ? localStorage.getItem('billboard') : 'false';
+    if(seen !== 'true') {
+      old = null;
+    }
+    if(message.data !== old) {
+      if(!message.err) {
+        $('#billContent').text(message.data);
+        localStorage.setItem('billboard', message.data)
+      } else {
+        console.error(message.err);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  getCurrentBillBoard(handleNewBillBoard);
+
+  $('#dismissBill').on('click', () => {
+    console.log("test");
+    localStorage.setItem('billboardSeen', 'true');
+  });
+
 });

common/models/BillBoard.json

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{
+  "name": "BillBoard",
+  "base": "PersistedModel",
+  "idInjection": true,
+  "trackChanges": false,
+  "properties": {
+    "message": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "active": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "default": false
+    }
+  },
+  "validations": [],
+  "relations": {
+
+  },
+  "acls": [
+    {
+      "accessType": "*",
+      "principalType": "ROLE",
+      "principalId": "$everyone",
+      "permission": "DENY"
+    },
+    {
+      "accessType": "READ",
+      "principalType": "ROLE",
+      "principalId": "$everyone",
+      "permission": "ALLOW"
+    }
+  ],
+  "methods": []
+}

server/boot/randomAPIs.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import secrets from '../../config/secrets';
 module.exports = function(app) {
   const router = app.loopback.Router();
   const User = app.models.User;
+  const BillBoard = app.models.BillBoard;
   router.get('/api/github', githubCalls);
   router.get('/api/blogger', bloggerCalls);
   router.get('/api/trello', trelloCalls);
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@ module.exports = function(app) {
     '/the-fastest-web-page-on-the-internet',
     theFastestWebPageOnTheInternet
   );
+  router.get('/billBoard', billBoard);
 
   app.use(router);
 
@@ -82,6 +84,25 @@ module.exports = function(app) {
       });
   }
 
+  function billBoard(req, res) {
+    if(req.user && typeof req.user.currentChallenge.challengeId !== "undefined"){
+      BillBoard.findOne({}, function(err, data){
+        if(err){
+          res.send({err: {type: "Error", message: "Database Error"}, data: null});
+        } else {
+          if (data.active) {
+            res.send({err: null, data: data.message});
+          } else {
+            res.send({err: {type: "warning", message: "Bill Board is not active"}, data: null});
+          }
+        }
+      });
+    }
+    else {
+      res.send({err: {type: "warning", message: "User Not Signed In"}, data: null});
+    }
+  }
+
   function theFastestWebPageOnTheInternet(req, res) {
     res.render('resources/the-fastest-web-page-on-the-internet', {
       title: 'This is the fastest web page on the internet'

server/model-config.json

@@ -66,5 +66,9 @@
   "userIdentity": {
     "dataSource": "db",
     "public": true
+  },
+  "BillBoard": {
+    "dataSource": "db",
+    "public": true
   }
 }

server/views/partials/flash.jade

@@ -18,3 +18,9 @@
               span.ion-close-circled
             for success in messages.success
               div!= success.msg
+.row.flashMessage
+  .col-xs-12
+    .alert.alert-success.fade.in
+      button.close(type='button', data-dismiss='alert')
+        span.ion-close-circled#dismissBill
+      #billContent