Guidance on setting up the API service locally

[angular-in-action]

Guidance on setting up the API service locally

[gnomeontherun]

Running this server locally still requires internet connection, because it connects to remote services. Unfortunately I didn't design this API to run any other way, because stock prices must come across the internet. If you have a limited connection, I suggest the best way to handle this is to download a snapshot of the data once as a JSON file, then update your demo to load from the local JSON file. You get static data, but it can run without the API.

However, here are the basic instructions.

• Clone the repository and navigate to it
• Run npm install
• Create a Firebase account if you don't have one (Google cloud console)
• Create a new project
• Find the API key and details in your project settings
• Create a .env file at the root of the repo and add properties by name (see https://github.com/angular-in-action/api/blob/master/index.js#L26)
• Run npm start and you should be up and running
• Update any references to the API to your new URLs

[gnomeontherun]

I've updated this service to be fully independent of the details above, just set it up and run it locally based on the README details.