Elsys Infoscreen

Web application to be used for an infoscreen placed in Koopen at Elbygget, NTNU Gløshaugen. The web application displays the last blog posts currently published at the Elsys Blog by cycling through them.

Built in Node.js using the following libraries/frameworks:

• React
• Redux w/ thunk
• Express
• LESS
• Babel
• Webpack
• Axios

This project is paid work financed by the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (IES) at NTNU. The project was assigned 15 work hours in total, and was finished in ~13 hours.

Source code has been made public with permission.

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Installation

Prerequisities

The following applications are considered required for building the application:

• Node.js >= v10.15.3 LTS
• Yarn package manager >= v1.15.2

First, clone the repository:

user@server:~$ git clone https://github.com/leiklier/elsys-infoscreen.git ~/elsys-infoscreen

Then, install all dependencies:

user@server:~$ cd ~/elsys-infoscreen && yarn install

Build

You may build the application for development purposes by issuing the command in a terminal:

user@server:~/elsys-infoscreen$ yarn run dev

This will start a separate development server and serve the site on http://localhost:8080. If you make changes to the source code while this server is running, the application will automatically recompile, and refresh the websites currently being viewed.

When building for production, the following command should be used:

user@server:~/elsys-infoscreen$ yarn build

This will create a new directory ~dist/ where all compiled files will reside.

Usage

After building the application for production, the server should be started by issuing the following:

user@server:~/elsys-infoscreen$ yarn start

The default port for production is PORT 3000.

Open a web browser, and the site is served at http://localhost:3000.