The automated greenhouse webapp

It consists of a React frontend and a Rust backend.

Development

Running the frontend

Execute the following in ./frontend:

npm install
npm start

By default, this frontend will use the hosted development backend at https://greenhouse-backend-dev.fly.io.

Configuring a local backend

You can also host your own local backend as described in the next section. Then create the file .env.development.local with these contents:

REACT_APP_BACKEND_HOST=http://localhost:8080

Running the backend

If you just want to run a local backend server, use Docker to build a container:

docker build -t my-backend .
docker run my-backend

Alternatively you can directly run the Rust app with cargo run.

Running the frontend

If you want to start a local server for displaying the frontend consider the following steps:

docker build -t automated_greenhouse_frontend ./frontend
docker run -it -it -p 8000:8000 automated_greenhouse_frontend

These commands will start a server locally which can be accessed via http://localhost:8000.
Alternatively, you can also run the following commands to enter the developer preview:

npm run dev

However, there might be issues with displaying images.