SC-Web

About

SC-Web is an intelligent knowledge base user interface. Currently, it is a part of the OSTIS Web Platform.

The long term idea of this project is to create a universal rendering mechanism for interfaces defined inside knowledge bases.

Demo

Quick start

We provide the ostis/sc-web Docker image to simplify the integration of this UI with existing ostis-systems.

# Connect to remote sc-server (or another Docker container)
docker run --rm -it -p 8000:8000 ostis/sc-web:latest --server_host=<ip or hostname>
# Connect to server hosted on localhost
docker run --rm -it --network=host ostis/sc-web:latest

Installation

Clone repo:

git clone https://github.com/ostis-ai/sc-web --recursive
cd sc-web

If you're using Ubuntu, you can install node and python runtimes using our script:

./scripts/install_dependencies.sh

After installing dependencies, you need to reopen the terminal and make sure that you use the specific version of nodejs. Otherwise, use the following command:

nvm use 16

Otherwise, the following dependencies should be installed:

• python3
• pip
• nodejs
• npm
• grunt-cli
• python modules: tornado, sqlalchemy, numpy, configparser, py-sc-client

Node.js and Python libraries can be installed using the respective package managers

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
npm install

Build the frontend

./scripts/build_sc_web.sh

Run the server

Note: SC-Web backend requires sc-server to be up and running, check ./run_scweb.sh --help for network configuration options.

Use the included script to launch the backend server:

./scripts/run_sc_web.sh

The UI will listen at localhost:8000.

Development notes

To run grunt in watch mode use:

npm run serve

Watch mode supports livereload. To enable livereload uncomment in client/templates/common.html

<!-- Enable livereload script for development -->
-<!--<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js"></script>-->
+<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://localhost:35729/livereload.js"></script>

Documentation

Full documentation, including:

• core concepts
• rationale behind the sc-web
• system design
• software interfaces

is redistributed in a form of the SCn-TeX document (always links to the latest version of the document).

Alternatively, you can build sc-web documentation only. To do that, refer to the scn-latex-plugin documentation.