LeafLIMS / LIMS-Frontend

**PLEASE NOTE: Due to lack of funding Leaf LIMS is no longer being developed/updated**. The UI for Leaf LIMS (requires LIMS-Backend to function)

Leaf LIMS: Frontend UI

Leaf LIMS is a laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed to make managing projects in a laboratory much easier. By using Leaf LIMS you can keep track of almost everything in the laboratory including samples, results data and even consumable levels.

Leaf LIMS uses Docker to easily bundle all the necessary components into a single package. Setting it up is as simple as downloading the latest release, editing a few configuration files and then running a single command!

Please note: This is only the UI for Leaf LIMS. Please see the Leaf LIMS repository for the full system

About the frontend

The Leaf LIMS UI is written in Aurelia, a modern javascript framework. Aurelia was chosen as it is a flexible, It makes requests to the REST API backend for data.

Prerequisites for development

1. Git
2. NodeJS + NPM
3. Docker (In case you want to build an image)

Setting up for development

1. Clone this repository
2. Run npm install to get all of the necessary tools + libraries
3. Once installed run au run --watch and start developing!
4. You will need a symlink to third_party/semantic-ui/themes/ in your root directory for icons etc. to show up. On the live system the directory is copied to root.

All source code is in the src/ directory and when run will create bundles in the scripts/ directory and use these - this is exactly how it is run on the live system.

Bugs and contacting the developers

If you find (or suspect you have found) a bug please check that it has not already been submitted to our issue tracker and if not, submit a bug report with as much detail as you can here.

For non-bug related enquiries you can contact the lead developer Thomas at [e-mail].

Support

Leaf LIMS is developed by a group of three major groups at universities in the UK: GeneMill at the University of Liverpool, the EGF at Edinburgh University and the Earlam Institute.

If you are interested in further supporting the project please get in touch with Thomas via email at [e-mail].

Licence

Leaf LIMS is open source under the MIT licence. You can access the source code in the following repositories: For the UI see LIMS-Frontend and for the API see LIMS-Backend.