EarthRef's KdD Web Application

A Meteor application for the EarthRef.org KdD Database.

Creating a Development Environment

Download and install:

• Visual Studio Code - an open-source IDE for Javascript development
• Meteor - the full-stack web framework
• Git Kraken or another Git UI or Git shell
  • This document refers to whichever Git software you choose simply as Git from now on.

Pull the develop branch and branch it to a user/[user name] branch or a feature/[feature name] branch in Git.

Check out the new branch in Git and make changes in Visual Studio Code.

Retrieve the latest packages in the terminal by typing:

meteor npm update

Run the Meteor application by typing:

meteor

The web application will run locally at http://localhost:3000, but access to the Elasticsearch server is limited.

Browser Testing

We use Browser Stack to check for cross-browser compatability: