rcbuild.info

Site to catalog multicopter builds.

Development

rcbuild.info can be run locally for easier testing of code.

Dependencies

It has two external dependencies: elasticsearch and github. Elasticsearch installation instructions are here and GitHub's API is mimicked by local-github whose installation instructions are here.

Python dependencies are installed within a virtual environment. Start the environment with sh bin/activate from within the virtual env directory. Then do pip install -r requirements.txt. Later, run application.py from this terminal which has the virtual environment set.

Most Javascript dependencies are managed by npm. npm is available here. Once installed it is suggested to install grunt-cli globally with npm -g grunt-cli. Finally the rest of the dependencies can be installed within the directory with npm install.

Running

To get rcbuild.info going run steps 3-6 in separate tabs. Once running it will be here.

1. Update development.env so that LOCAL_GITHUB_REPO_DIRECTORY points to the correct location.
2. source development.env
3. elasticsearch --http.cors.enabled=true - Runs on port 9200 by default.
4. node local-github.js - Runs on port 6178 by default.
5. init-rcbuild.sh - Optional after the first time.
6. grunt watch
7. python2 application.py - Runs on port 5000 by default.