Brtish Printed Images is a rebuild of a legacy website at (https://bpi1700.org.uk/). The site is digital library of prints and book illustrations from Early Modern Britain, with images ranging from 1550 to 1815. The site allows searching by BPI number, subject, event, person and producer. The BPI number is an internal classfication system that has no links to other digital libraries.
Adam Morton, Newcastle University (adam.morton@newcastle.ac.uk)
Becky Osselton, Newcastle University (rebecca.osselton@newcastle.ac.uk)
Becky Osselton
RSE Team
Newcastle University
(rebecca.osselton@newcastle.ac.uk)
The database is a sqlserver database hosted on Azure, under the subscription 'british-printed-images'.
The application is built using Express.js and will run on Node 18, 21.
Node.js Express
npm install to install all dependencies
Create an .env file containing the following variables:
DB_HOST=
DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
DB_NAME=
DB_PORT=These will connect to the live Azure database.
Start the server running with node app.js. This starts the application running on localhost:3000. The client repo is at: bpi-vue-client, and is Vue.js application which will run on localhost:8080.
Jest has been used as the test library. Execute database tests with the command below. The tests connect to the live database, so it may be necessary to whitelist an IP through Azure bfreo the tests will run.
npm test
The two parts of the application need to be brought togther as one code base. The client repository needs to be built and minified locally and then the build files copied into this repository public folder. The client application files build into a 'dist' folder, which can be placed inside the public folder of this repository. Then this repo is deployed through GitHub actions on a push to main branch.
Kings College Digital Lab, London.
This work was funded by a grant from the AHRC.