Local Setup (Development)

Follow these steps to setup and run photo-metadata-updater locally

Dependencies:

1. Nodejs installed
2. Exiftool installed (or get the bundled version from one of the releases)
3. Bing maps API key

Steps:

1. Clone this repo
2. From a console run the following:

• npm run install-backend - installs nodejs app dependencies
• npm run install-frontend - installs vue frontend app dependencies
• npm run build-frontend - builds vue frontend app into a new public/ folder
• cp config.template.properties config.properties - Copy the template config file into a real config file

3. Edit the config.properties file, add you bing maps API key, and add the full path to your exiftool binary

• If exiftool is available on your system PATH, then you do not need to edit the value (test this with exiftool -ver)

4. Start the app using npm start - this will be accessible on http://localhost:8000
5. (Optional) If working on the frontend, start the live development server using npm run serve-frontend

• This will be accessible on http://localhost:8080, and you also need the node app running for full functionality (step 4)