Travel Planner App

About

The Travel Planner App is a one-page web app. Users are able to insert their anticipated travelling dates and location, and from that receive predicted weather and a picture of the location.

This project makes extensive use of the webpack build tool. It is highly recommended that those contributing use the webpack dev server, which is outlined below. Learn more about getting started with webpack here.

Getting Started

Installing dependencies

This project requires node.js. If you don't have it installed already, you can find instructions for downloading it here. Once you have node installed, download the required dependencies from package.json by typing the following in your terminal:

npm install

Generating the production build

Run the following in your terminal:

npm run build-prod

The build will be generated in dist/.

Generating the development build

Run the following in your terminal:

npm run build-dev

The build will be generated in dist/.

Running Webpack's dev server

Run the following in your terminal:

npm run dev-server

The dev server will automatically open a new window with src/client/index.html loaded. The dev server watches all files that are linked to src/client/index.js and allows for awesome features like hot reload. More information can be found here. Please note that even if you are using the dev server, you still need to start the backend server (see below).

Running the backend server

Run the following in your terminal:

npm run express-server

This will run the express server on port 3001. You can then access the landing page at http://localhost:3001/.

Running tests

Run the following in your terminal:

npm run test

This will run the jest tests in the tests/ directory.