Balancing Act

Getting Started

Installing Balancing Act

1. Prerequisites:

   • Java 8 JDK and Maven

   • node and yarn

     Note: This step is optional for just building the application since Maven will pull down the appropriate dependencies, but useful for front end development.

   • A database. The code is set to use MySQL by default but it's Hibernate, so with a few quick pom.xml and property file changes, the world is your oyster. MySQL in a container is a quick way to be up and running.

2. Get and build the project

   git clone https://github.com/jmoroski/balancing-act.git
   cd balancing-act
   mvn install

3. (At some point you need to actually set up the database. #3 should talk about that)

Running Balancing Act application

1. Run the application by navigating to the backend directory and running tomcat via Maven.

   cd backend
   mvn tomcat7:run-war

2. From a browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/