Server app for the MS todo app

What does this piece of software do?

This is a dockerized Node.js app, which serves a simple todo app. This app is intended to organize tasks for the maintenance of a modern proteomics mass spectrometer.

Each day one has to check the injection needles, run quality control samples, or exchange liquid chromatography components. In order to keep an overview of all these tasks, the Verkstad app for mass spec maintenance was developed and is now applied in the Lehtiö laboratory.

The server app receives user requests to show or register predefined tasks. The data is kept in a sqlite database.

The app itself is dockerized and can easily be run on any server setup.

Curious about kanteleId? Watch out for new developments and the awesome Kantele platform by my colleague @glormph.

Can I also use it?

Sure! Just clone the repo to your server, build the docker image and start it according to rundocker.sh. Then you can design your own frontend or use this one.

Of course you can also directly use the docker image from the public repository. Just execute

docker run -it # for interactive session
           -v "$(pwd)"/docker_volume/db:/app/db # adjust for location of db file
           -v "$(pwd)"/docker_volume/log:/app/log # adjust for location of log file
           -p 8081:8081 # adjust exposing port (first one)
           --env-file .env # make your own env file (see description in rundocker.sh)
           matthiasstahl/verkstad_server

on your server. The -v arguments are optional and allow you to store the sqlite database somewhere else on your server. The same is true for the location of the log file.

Deploy the full Verkstad bundle on a webserver

• Server (this repo)
  1. Find place for sqlite file and log file.
  2. Create .env file to hold the environment variables.
  3. Run docker image with .env file and mapped volumes forever (via cronjob).
  4. Configure ports and redirection.
• Client (other repo)
  1. Find place to store index.html and js as well as css files from the dist folder.
  2. Configure ports and redirection.

Sidenote

This project was built during some very long nights in Stockholm's winter 2019.