Mappo web interface

A web interface for Mappo, to display JSON and IGC (paragliding) GPS tracks on a map, and allow upload of new tracks via a RESTful API. Backend in Go and frontend in React. In order to serve pre-built client JS and CSS files from webpack, wwhose names are not static, the Go server reads the relevant filenames from asset-manifest.json and passes them to the html template for rendering. Updating the frontend build requires just a server restart, and meantime a development setup can co-exist at the traditional http://localhost:3000 .

Tools used:

• React / Redux, for clientside rendering
• Golang for backend and APIs
• Postgres for database
• Google Cloud Storage, for storage of uploaded files
• Mapbox GL API for 2D mapping
• Mapbox location API, for retrieval of placenames from coordinates
• Cesium.js for 3D mapping
• D3.js for 2D graphing

See the app demo hosted here: https://mappo-web.herokuapp.com/

Install & run locally

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/nguest/Mappo-Web.git
$ cd mappo-web

There are two parts:

CLIENT SIDE

The client side which is built as below,

$ cd client
$ yarn
$ yarn build

You will also need to create two environment variables, which should be available from the shell in which you start the app:

MAPBOX_API_KEY=<xxxx>
CESIUM_ACCESS_TOKEN=<xxxx>

SERVER SIDE

Create a Postgresql DB

You will need Postgres to be installed and running, e.g via brew install postgresql

$ createDB mappo

The server can be run in a number of different ways, e.g.:

$ cd ..
$ go run *.go

SEE IT IN ACTION

Visit http://localhost:10000 in your browser

Todo

• Upload trackfiles to server
• Build IGC and JSON file parsers
• Display tracks in a list and get track details for display on the map on listitem click
• Altitude graph in D3
• Implement API Authentication
• 3D Mapping with Cesium
• Calculate FAI and OLC triangle and other flightypes
• Save & retrieve tracks to/from cloud storage
• Implement SPA router clientside