see and rate quotes from Ron Swanson, courtesy of the Ron Swanson Quotes API
System requirements: Unix-like OS, npm, mix, running postgresql service
first time here? Try this:
git clone git@github.com:nicholasgriffen/ron
cd ron
./setup.sh
Then point your browser to localhost:4000
The client is a React application, stored in /client. The application was not bootstrapped with any existing tools, e.g., Create React App. It uses Babel (npm run transpile) and Webpack (npm run bundle) with simple configuration. It is meant to be built with npm run build, and served from the server (Phoenix) application at server/priv/static. You only need to start the server once during client dev (npm run start). As you develop the client application, you can run npm run build, then refresh your browser pointed at localhost:4000 to see changes.
The server is a Phoenix application, stored in /server. The application was bootstrapped with mix phx.new --no-webpack --no-html. It is meant to interact with a Postgresql database, serving quotes and their associated ratings. It is also meant to serve the client application from server/priv/static. Here are some useful commands to run from the server directory:
mix ecto.setup will create and migrate the database
mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs will fetch all 57 quotes from the Ron Swanson Quotes API, and store them in the database.
mix phx.server will compile the application and run a server listening to localhost:4000
The server application with client bundle is deployed to Heroku using the buildpack at: https://github.com/HashNuke/heroku-buildpack-elixir.git
Note that it is unnecessary to deploy the client application, and Heroku has difficulty if the deployment is attempted from the top level of this repo. I built the client application and copied the server application (with client at priv/static) to a new repo. Then I deployed that new repo following instructions at https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/heroku.html.