QASM is a single-serve web application that runs using React and Electron, with the ability to run customizable QA or labeling jobs from a local host, a packaged windows .exe, or a statically hosted S3 website.
Launching an app in S3 mode (such as for the demo) fails unless a .env file is present, which requires terraform to be deployed. #22 is dealing with the AWS configuration specifically, however this and other errors could be more verbosely handled in general.
For example, adding a catch to hit_terraform_api that returns {"data":[]} on a 404 allows the app to launch, rather than a blank screen with a non-descriptive console error.
All frontend-backend interactions should have contingencies for various error codes that include a visual reflection of what went wrong, especially for everything in the demo.
Launching an app in S3 mode (such as for the demo) fails unless a
.envfile is present, which requires terraform to be deployed. #22 is dealing with the AWS configuration specifically, however this and other errors could be more verbosely handled in general.For example, adding a catch to
hit_terraform_apithat returns{"data":[]}on a 404 allows the app to launch, rather than a blank screen with a non-descriptive console error. All frontend-backend interactions should have contingencies for various error codes that include a visual reflection of what went wrong, especially for everything in the demo.