ClimateExplorer

ClimateExplorer is a website to help people understand climate change. It's focussed on trying to provide a simple and approachable interface for people to explore the changes to climate in their region. This github site is the digital repository for everything used to bring the website together.

Architecture and code

• Built in Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition using
  • .NET 8
  • C#
  • Blazor
  • Minimal Web API
• The main projects in the solution are:
  • Web: Blazor server-side website that displays the data to the user. This is a wrapper project, most of the Blazor files are in Web.Client.
  • Web.Client: Blazor Web Assembly version of the website. This will download to the browser and the browser will switch to using this after its downloaded.
  • WebApi: Web API that gets and processes the data that the website uses
  • Core: code shared between Web, WebApi and other projects
  • UnitTests: tests for various sub-systems
• Additional libraries used
  • https://github.com/Megabit/Blazorise
  • https://github.com/DP-projects/DPBlazorMap
  • https://github.com/AeonLucid/GeoCoordinate.NetStandard1
  • https://github.com/HugoVG/CurrentDevice
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/DBSCAN/ (source)
  • https://www.nuget.org/packages/Blazored.LocalStorage/ (source)

How to use

• Download the github repo.
• Open in Visual Studio 2022.
• Set your start-up projects to be Web and WebApi and run.
  • Two websites should start-up; the user interface and the web API.