Minor changes

- A note on running the App against the prod backend locally has been
added into README.md.
- Env config (holds API URL to use) is now passed into the React
Component responsible for new challenge listings, as `config` prop.

Author: birdofpreyru

README.md

@@ -20,6 +20,18 @@ In order to test a logged in user, you must make an entry in your `/etc/hosts` f
 - To create the build: `npm run build`
 - To run code linting: `npm run lint`
 - To run the tests: `npm test`
+
+## Running against Production backend
+To run this App against the production backend, you should configure your system in a way that a call to `local.topcoder.com` redirects to `localhost:3000` where the App is running. Then you just `npm run start-prod`, go to `local.topcoder.com` and use your credentials for the production web site (and, sure, be careful with what you are doing, it all will go through the production TopCoder API).
+
+To make the mentioned configuration on Ubuntu 16.04 you:
+- Add `127.0.0.1 local.topcoder.com` to your `/etc/hosts`
+- `$ sudo apt install libcap2-bin`
+- `$ which node` to figure out your `path/to/node`
+- `$ sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /path/to/node`
+- Now run the App.
+
+*Disclaimer: I have no idea, what setcap does here, and how safe it is, but it does the job. Feel free to add your comments / modify this section, if you know more about it. Also, if you know how to make such configuration on other OS, please add it here.*
 
 ## Test Users
 - general member user accounts:  

app/listings/listings.controller.js

@@ -75,7 +75,11 @@ import { loadUser } from '../services/userv3.service.js'
           vm.myChallenges = userChallenges.reverse().slice(0, 8)
 
           // update myChallenges
-          $scope.userProps = { isAuth: true, myChallenges: vm.myChallenges }
+          $scope.userProps = {
+            config: CONSTANTS,
+            isAuth: true,
+            myChallenges: vm.myChallenges
+          }
 
           vm.userHasChallenges = true
           vm.loading = false

package.json

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build": "webpack --bail --progress --build --tc",
     "start": "webpack-dev-server --history-api-fallback --host 0.0.0.0 --dev --tc --inline --progress --port 3000",
+    "start-prod": "webpack-dev-server --history-api-fallback --host local.topcoder.com --prod --tc --inline --progress --port 80",
     "lint": "eslint .",
     "test": "karma start --tc --test"
   },