jamesarnall / weather-station

Weather Station

This is just a pet project. It's intended to run on a tablet or similar display device, as an ambient info source for what the weather is like.

Live app: http://jamesarnall-weather.azurewebsites.net/

Dependencies

• The DarkSky API
• jQuery
• Bootstrap 4.0.0
• Roboto font
• Weather Icons, from Erik Flowers:
  http://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/

To Run

From /WeatherStation:

dotnet run

This will start an HTTP server, runnning on http://localhost:5000.

Preprocess view assets

From root:

gulp build

To Do

• Decouple client API calling by making a service object that is passed as a parameter (for better testing, etc.)
  • Recode client methods to take api (or mockApi) dependency as a parameter
  • Pass in api/mock in the view
• Get better icons
• Nice animated fade when the display updates?
• There's no error handling really going on. Might change this, for academic reasons.
• Deployment somewhere, presumably Azure. Git hooks, all of that.
• Scaffold up some tests
• Fix condition where AJAX GET fails and never tries again

Someday?

• Allow ZIP lookup, so anyone can use this; after looking up ZIP, it cookies their prefs