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first draft of user interface #1

Open mattmoehr opened 6 years ago

mattmoehr commented 6 years ago

Hi Lindsay and all,

This is great progress. I've got some time this weekend where I think I might hack on a front end. I'm thinking of using Glitch for development. Glitch is basically a free VM service that lets you run Node.js apps. The one drawback is that it doesn't have Postgres. It only has file-based databases like sqlite.

For a MVP I'm going to dump some data from your database into a JSON and stick the static file on Glitch. Seem ok for now?

Down the road we may want to think more about how to integrate the scraping workflow (python, Postgres, Node) with the some sort of (free) hosting provider.

~Matt

lynzt commented 6 years ago

sounds great 👍

I haven't used glitch before, but it looks good to me. Were you able to get some test json files created? I'm excited you're taking a look at the front end!

Can glitch use apis? I have a VERY basic api running locally and could throw it on a free heroku instance and add a simple apiKey to semi-lock it down. If you're able to get a basic front-end using static data, we can eventually we could plug in api calls.