EAL Surfer

The EAL Surfer is now on the web

Production

Visit http://eal.services/

Local Development

The project is built on top of Amazon AWS cloud services. The project is built entirely upon javascript - the back-end using node.js (on AWS Lambda) and the front-end using the Vue.js framework.

1. Setup development environment (OSX)

   • Install Brew

     /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

   • Install n

     brew install n

   • Install node

     sudo n v6.10

   • Install Java

     http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

2. Install the development tools globally

   • npm install -g gulp

3. Building the server

   • npm install
   • gulp
     • gulp buildServer

4. Run a local version of the server

   • Download dynamodb
     • gulp getDynamoDB
   • In one terminal run the database
     • ./etc/runDynamoDB.sh
   • In a second terminal run the API server
     • ./etc/runAPI.sh

5. Run local version of the web

   • npm run dev OR ./etc/runWeb.sh

6. Package for AWS Deployment

   • NODE_ENV=production gulp dist
   • npm run build
   • Run the cloud formation in ./dist
   • Upload the zip to the new lambda function
   • Upload the client files in dist to the s3 bucket
   • Goto the /#update to import the csv data files

Notes

• For production, during the import process to AWS DynamoDB, table write throughput needs to be bumped up to about 40. It can be set back to 1 after the import.
• The HEER office provided many tables and lots of information but they are not all currently used.