Anvil Portal

The front-facing AnVIL user portal located at https://anvilproject.org

AnVIL is an Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space for democratizing genomic data access, sharing and computing across large genomic-related data sets.

Content Contributor Guide

Information about creating/modifying the site content can be found here: https://anvilproject.org/content-guide

Setting Up a Developer Workspace

Requirements

• Node.js (https://nodejs.org/en/), version 14.16.0.

• We recommend using n (https://github.com/tj/n) as the Node.js package manger.

• npm (https://www.npmjs.com/) is bundled with Node.js and is required to manage application dependencies.

Setup

Clone Repo

Clone the anvil-portal repo:

git@github.com:anvilproject/anvil-portal.git

Install Gatsby Command Line Tool

The Gatsby command line tool is used to develop, build and serve (locally) the Data Portal.

npm install --global gatsby-cli

Install Packages

Run the following command from the project's root directory to install the required packages:

npm install

Development Server

Run the following command from the root directory:

npm start

Or if using Windows:

npm run start-windows

The development server can be viewed at:

localhost:8000

Building

Run the following command to build the application:

npm run-script build

Or on Windows:

npm run build-windows

Local Production Version

Run the following command to view a built version of the application, locally:

gatsby serve

The built version can be viewed at:

localhost:9000

Troubleshooting installation on Windows

• Make sure that Python and Visual C++ Build Tools are installed (see Gatsby documentation).

• If Gatsby crashes because of missing files, running npm rebuild may help.