INSPECT.ION

Inspect.ion is a truck inspection report logging and analytics web application. It is optimized for mobile and built with the CERN stack: Cloudant, Express, React, and Node.

Running Locally

Prerequisites

• Node.js and npm
• Cloudant Account

Installing dependencies

npm install

This will install all runtime and development dependencies.

Running the app

There are two ways to run the app in development mode:

Dev Server

npm run build-watch
npm start

The first command will run Webpack in watch mode, rebuilding the client static files in /app/build every time a change is made to the source files. The second command will run the Node.js server. This setup simulates a production environment without the performance enhacements.

Webpack HMR Server

npm run hmr
npm start

The command starts a little Node.js server that serves only the webpack bundle. This setup gives us two main advantages:

• Changes to React components cause automatic page refreshes
• Updates to static files like CSS are injected into the running app without requiring a page refresh, allowing us to maintain state, among other things

API requests from this app will proxy to port 8080, so you will still need the Node server running.

Environment variables

Place your Cloudant username/password in the database/db_credentials.js file.

^^^ This needs to be changed when moving to env vars