climatediff - Compares the climate of two cities

A simple web application that shows the climate difference between two cities. If you're considering moving, this application will give you an idea of day-to-day weather differences between where you are now and your new city.

I originally started writing this many moons ago to learn Angular, but set it aside unfinished. Recently I decided to modernize it, and host it here for posterity, but there is still a lot of cleanup to do and features to add.

Hacking

First, check out the project. Install the project's JS and PHP dependencies with npm and composer:

git clone https://github.com/bobbylight/climatediff.git
cd climatediff
npm install
# On Windows, use Composer's installer; otherwise, just use curl
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
php composer.phar install

Then, get a token to access the NCDC CDO web services. Create a new file named public/api/init.php from public/api/init.php.orig with your token inserted appropriately. This is necessary for the application to fetch historical data from the NOAA.

You can build the production version of it into dist/ by running npm run build.

npm Scripts

• npm run clean - Delete the dist/ and coverage/ (for unit tests) folders
• npm run build - Create a minified build in dist/
• npm run dev - Runs a dev build, watches for and hotswaps changes
• npm run test - Run unit tests (nothing yet)
• npm run coverage - Run unit tests, generate coverage report (nothing yet)
• npm run make-aws-archive - Builds aws-archive.zip from the current contents of dist/

To Deploy to AWS

To deploy to AWS, as configured in .elasticbeanstalk/config.yml:

npm run make-aws-archive
eb deploy --label "label for new version"

Miscellaneous

Icons were grabbed from:

• http://www.clipartbest.com/free-printable-weather-symbols