update getting started content, license date, contributing link, .git…

…ignore & add custom `npm start` 🚀

.gitignore

@@ -47,3 +47,4 @@ bundle.tar.gz
 jsdoc-conf.json
 jsdoc.json
 packages/nova-router/.npm
+npm-debug.log

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 - Come check-in in the [Telescope Slack channel](http://slack.telescopeapp.org/). 👋
 
-- Completely new features should be shipped as external packages with their own repos (see [3rd party packages](https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope#third-party-plugins)). Don't hesitate to come by the [Slack channel](http://slack.telescopeapp.org/) to speak about it.
+- Completely new features should be shipped as external packages with their own repos (see [3rd party packages](http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org/plugins.html)). Don't hesitate to come by the [Slack channel](http://slack.telescopeapp.org/) to speak about it.
 
 - We don't have test at the moment, and Travis integration is broken. If you know how to fix it, you are welcome (see [#1253](https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope/issues/1253)!
 

README.md

@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
 
 This is the Apollo/GraphQL version of Telescope Nova. [You can find the documentation here](http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org/).
 
+The fastest way to get started is:
+```sh
+npm install
+npm start
+```
+
 ### Other Versions
 
 You can find the older, non-Apollo version of Telescope Nova on the [nova-classic](https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope/tree/nova-classic) branch. 

license.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2016 Telescope Nova
+Copyright (c) 2017 Telescope Nova
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
-SOFTWARE.
+SOFTWARE.

package.json

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
     "npm": "^3.0"
   },
   "scripts": {
+    "prestart": "sh prestart_nova.sh",
+    "start": "meteor --settings settings.json",
     "lint": "eslint --cache --ext .jsx,js packages"
   },
   "dependencies": {

packages/nova-getting-started/content/customizing.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
-If you want to learn how to customize Nova, we suggest checking out the [Read Me](https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope) on GitHub. 
+If you want to learn how to customize Nova, we suggest checking out the [docs](http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org) on GitHub. 
 
-The first things you'll want to do are probably create a `settings.json` file to hold all your settings, and then taking a look at the sample custom package by uncommenting `my-custom-package` in `.meteor/packages`.
+The first things you'll want to do are probably create a `settings.json` file to hold all your settings, and then taking a look at the sample custom package by uncommenting `customization-demo` in `.meteor/packages`.
+
+Here are two tutorials to get further:
+* [Understanding the Nova Framework](http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org/tutorial-framework.html )
+* [Customizing & Extending Nova](http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org/tutorial-customizing.html)
+
+Happy hacking!

packages/nova-getting-started/content/deploying.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Once you've played around with Nova, you might want to deploy your app for the whole world to see. 
 
-We recommend using [Meteor Up X (MupX)](https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up/tree/mupx) to deploy to a [Digital Ocean](http://digitalocean.com) server, along with [Compose](http://compose.io) to host your database. 
+We recommend using [Meteor Up](https://github.com/kadirahq/meteor-up) to deploy to a [Digital Ocean](http://digitalocean.com) server, along with [Compose](http://compose.io) to host your database. 
 
-Other good alternatives include [Galaxy](http://galaxy.meteor.com/) and [Scalingo](http://scalingo.com).
+Other good alternatives include [Galaxy](http://galaxy.meteor.com/) and [Scalingo](http://scalingo.com).
+
+Learn more in the [Nova docs](http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org/deployment.html).

packages/nova-getting-started/content/getting_help.md

@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
-### Telescope Meta
-
-If you have a question, the best place to ask is [Telescope Meta](http://meta.telescopeapp.org).
-
 ### Slack Chatroom
 
-You can also drop by the [Slack chatroom](http://slack.telescopeapp.org) to get help or just say hello!
-
-### Stack Overflow
-
-Another good place to ask Telescope questions is [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/telescope). Just make sure you use the `telescope` tag!
+If you have a question, the best place to ask is the [Slack chatroom](http://slack.telescopeapp.org) to get help. Or you can also drop to just say hello!
 
 ### GitHub Issues
 
-Finally, if you've found a bug in Telescope, then please [leave an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope/issues).
+If you've found a bug in Telescope, then please [leave an issue on GitHub](https://github.com/TelescopeJS/Telescope/issues).

prestart_nova.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+purple=$(tput setaf 141)
+blue=$(tput setaf 153)
+bold=$(tput bold)
+reset=$(tput sgr0)
+
+test -f settings.json || (echo "🛠  ${blue}Creating your own settings.json file...\n"; cp sample_settings.json settings.json;)
+
+echo "🔭  ${bold}${purple}Happy hacking with Telescope Nova!${reset}"; 
+
+echo "📖  ${blue}The docs are available at: ${purple}http://nova-docs.telescopeapp.org";
+
+tput sgr0;