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2 years ago Hi @dancesWithCycles , this program is developed with python3.
package.json is commonly seen in nodejs applications, not here.
Further details:
- There is a restful backend api using tornado lib in python
- For frontend, it's basic HTML / client-side Javascript pages.
- For populating the content, I did not implement any templating etc - it's only through api calls to the backend.
- For the "database", it's .h5 files (lookup HDF5 : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/hdf5-files-in-python/ ), one for each of
stops.txt,routes.txtetc. If you start the application without any imported data to begin with, then as you go creating new data, a corresponding .h5 file is created by the backend. - Why not a real database : the project's initial requirements/scope included portability - the whole code was desired to be operable off a USB stick without a setup process, hence it wasn't possible to setup and tie the code to a DB server. I did check out SQLite, but came across HDF5 as a faster / more efficient way of storing larger amounts of data. Did a basic benchmarking exercise and found it to be faster, so went with it.
Hi folks, Thank you so much for providing and maintaining this repository! After making some experiences with using, running and deploying the repository I am wondering how it is developed. For instance, I can not find a
package.jsonfile. That raised the question: What is a possible development process? Cheers!