Senior capping project for Fall 2017.
Main class:
com.helpinghands.HelpingHandsApplication
Program arguments:
server helping-hands.yml
VM options:
-Ddw.database.url=[DATABASE URL]
-Ddw.database.user=[USER FOR DATABASE]
-Ddw.database.password=[PASSWORD FOR USER]
The front end is composed of a single page application written in React.
It is necessary to host the page on a local web server, otherwise the client-side routing will not work. You can read more about react-router here.
The easiest way to set up a local web server is to use NodeJS. You can check if you are running Node by using the command node -v. If you are not, install node at https://nodejs.org/en/.
Once node is installed, navigate in your terminal to the location containing the index.html file, in this case src/client/app, and run the command
ws --spa index.html
You can then access the site by simply going to localhost:8000/home in a browser.
The bulk of the written project consists of .jsx files, a variant of JavaScript that needs to converted and bundled to be readable by the browser. There are two commands to do so:
npm run build bundles all current .jsx files into a bundle.js file.
npm run dev causes Webpack to constantly watch the project, and rebundle any time it detects any new changes saved.
It is recommended to have both ws --spa index.html and npm run dev running in two terminal windows while developing.