samperumal/eskom-load-shedding

View eskom load shedding schedules for supported cities

Eskom load shedding schedule viewer

Simple Single-Page App (SPA) to view the Eskom load shedding schedule for a given zone and stage, for a range of supported South African cities. Schedules have been manually transformed into JSON files, which support varying blocks and schedule types (days of the week or days of the month).

The website is built using Vue, Buefy and Bulma, with Yarn as the package manager and Parcel as the bundler. and is hosted on Netlify.

There is also a series of Python scripts, running on an Azure VM, that scrape supported city websites to extract the current load shedding stage (where available).

Recommended IDE Setup

VSCode + Volar (and disable Vetur) + TypeScript Vue Plugin (Volar).

Type Support for .vue Imports in TS

TypeScript cannot handle type information for .vue imports by default, so we replace the tsc CLI with vue-tsc for type checking. In editors, we need TypeScript Vue Plugin (Volar) to make the TypeScript language service aware of .vue types.

If the standalone TypeScript plugin doesn't feel fast enough to you, Volar has also implemented a Take Over Mode that is more performant. You can enable it by the following steps:

1. Disable the built-in TypeScript Extension
   1. Run Extensions: Show Built-in Extensions from VSCode's command palette
   2. Find TypeScript and JavaScript Language Features, right click and select Disable (Workspace)
2. Reload the VSCode window by running Developer: Reload Window from the command palette.

Customize configuration

See Vite Configuration Reference.

Project Setup

npm install

Compile and Hot-Reload for Development

npm run dev

Type-Check, Compile and Minify for Production

npm run build

eskom-load-shedding's Issues

Site should use local storage to remember preferred zone and city.

Local storage is I think the way to go, but also open to alternatives.

Remove side-effect behaviour from currentCityStage

Linting rule "vue/no-side-effects-in-computed-properties" fails.
This should be replaced with the Vue-appropriate way of doing things.

Collapse Johannesburg blocks

Since Jhb has 4 hour blocks, it might make more sense to collapse them as such, but would need to figure out how to display that in the grid, given blocks are 2 hours apart.

State defaults to Cape Town

Stored state does not work anymore. Defaults to Cape Town when the page reloads.