Rankit

This project was generated with Angular CLI version 7.1.2.

Development server

Run ng serve for a dev server. Navigate to http://localhost:4200/. The app will automatically reload if you change any of the source files.

Development notes

• Rankit is built with Angular. For search and social share purposes, we need to be able to deliver it to a server. As a result, we use Angular's Server Side Rendering (SSR).
• Google's domain for this is https://rankit-vote.appspot.com/
• Hosting is Google Cloud App Engine
• Database is Firebase
• Billing is through Google Cloud
• We use Firebase cloud functions for the backend. They're within this project under /functions and live on Firebase. Since we use Typescript for them, they need to be compiled to JS before being uploaded.

Editing the home page

• within Firebase, there is a admin "table" with "settings" and a few fields hardcoded. You can edit those as necessary.

Deploy Functions

(Assumes you're set up with the Firebase SDK) cd functions > npm run build firebase deploy --only functions

Deploy Main app

npm run deploy

Deploying builds the application and uploads it to Google Cloud's App Engine using the gcloud SDK.