Vanilla JavaScript Seed App for SASjs

This is the minimal seed app for SASjs.

It runs on both SAS 9 and Viya. To deploy the services, execute the following:

/* define the app location, eg in metadata or Viya folders service */
%let apploc=/Public/app/minimal-seed-app;

/* include macros directly, else download & compile manually */
filename mc url "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sasjs/core/main/all.sas";
%inc mc;

/* create the two services */
filename ft15f001 temp;
parmcards4;
    proc sql;
    create table areas as select distinct area from sashelp.springs;
    %webout(OPEN)
    %webout(OBJ,areas)
    %webout(CLOSE)
;;;;
%mp_createwebservice(path=&apploc/services/common, name=appinit)

parmcards4;
    %webout(FETCH)
    proc sql;
    create table springs as select * from sashelp.springs
      where area in (select area from areas);
    %webout(OPEN)
    %webout(OBJ,springs)
    %webout(CLOSE)
;;;;
%mp_createwebservice(path=&apploc/services/common, name=getdata)

Next, open the src/index.html file and update the appLoc in the initSasJs() function to the same folder location used above. Deploy to the SAS Web Server is recommended using the deploy NPM script provided in the package.json file.

It deploys the app to a specified server via SSH using the rsync command. Note - this is not available by default on Windows. A guide for installing it is available here.

To be able to run the deploy script, two environment variables need to be set:

SSH_ACCOUNT - your SSH account, this is of the form username@domain.com DEPLOY_PATH - the path on the server where the app will be deployed to, typically /var/www/html/<some-subfolder>.

You can run the script like so:

SSH_ACCOUNT=me@my-sas-server.com
DEPLOY_PATH=/var/www/html/$(whoami)/minimal
npm run deploy

You are done!

Local Development

You can put the frontend directly on the SAS Web Server, else you can also use node to spin up a local web server with CORS disabled. To install, submit npm install http-server -g. To execute, navigate to the location where the app is to be loaded and submit: npx http-server --cors