gitter-badger/dronesym

Dronesym is a platform enabling users to handle and track their drone fleets in real time. Users can have functionality to add new drones configure their flight paths and monitor their progress through a web dashboard.

DroneSym

Setting Up the Project

Prerequisites

1. Install Node.js 6.x (or higher)
2. Python version 2.7

Part 1 - Setting up the Node environment

1. After cloning the repo navigate to dronesym-node folder
2. Run npm install to pull the dependencies
3. Create a firebase admin sdk private key following the instructions found here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/admin/setup#add_firebase_to_your_app
4. In db.js file provide the path to your firebase key file and the database url
5. Import the database with mongorestore --db dronesym dronedb/dronesym
6. Run npm start to start the Node server

Note: Make sure you have an admin account in the database under user collection. (Refer the schema in Models folder)

Part 2 - Setting up Python environment

1. After cloning the repo, navigate to the folder dronesym-python
2. Run sudo pip install -r requirements.txt to pull the dependencies
3. Navigate to dronsym-python/flask-api/src folder
4. Run python main.py to start the Flask server Note: Node server should be running when starting up the Flask server

Part 3 - Setting up the Angular front-end

Make sure that you have Node6.x or higher version installed

Install AngularCLI

$ npm install -g @angular/cli

Set environmental variable in ./dronesym-frontend/src/environments/environment.ts

mapsApiKey: 'YOUR_GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY',
nodeApiURL: 'http://localhost:3000/dronesym/api/node',
feedURL: 'http://localhost:3000/feed'

Note: Dronesym Node server (./dronesym-node/) and DroneSym Flask server (./dronesym-python/flask-api/src) should be running before starting the frontend server_

Starting the Angular2 development server

$ npm install
$ ng serve

Default login credentials

Admin

username: admin
password: admin

User

username: icarus
password: icarus

Part 4 - Running with Docker (Optional)

Checkout to docker branch

$ git checkout docker

Navigate to the root folder

Run

$ docker-compose up