Advanced UI for Hoover

Installation

Working on the UI needs a recent nodejs (see 'engine' in package.json for the version currently used).

1. Download the code, install dependencies

   git clone https://github.com/hoover/ui.git
   cd ui
   npm install

2. Development

   npm run dev

3. Building

   npm run build

Deployment

The UI is just a bunch of static files, they are generated in the build folder. They consume the API of Hoover-Search. It can serve these files from disk if you set HOOVER_UI_ROOT in hoover/site/settings/local.py to the path of the UI's build folder.

Development

If you don't want to install Hoover-Search locally, you can develop against a remote server.

HOOVER_REMOTE_SEARCH_URL=https://hoover.crji.org/ npm run dev

The UI is served at http://localhost:3000 and API calls are proxied to the remote server.

Node upgrade

Upgrading the node version requires a version bump in the following files:

• package.json (engine)
• .travis.yml
• Dockerfile