Lofar Long Term Archive pipeline orcestrate web application

This project has been continued as part of PROCESS.

The is the frontend and the db backend of the web application which can be used to run a pipeline on several data products in the Lofar Long Term Archive. To run pipeline the https://github.com/EOSC-LOFAR/lofar_workflow_api web service is required.

Dependencies:

• oracle instantclient basic (tested with version 18.3)
• npm

Configuration:

To run the following variables must be set in server/db-config.js before building the package:

• HR_CONNECTIONSTRING, connection string to Lofar database (optional)
• HR_USER, username to connect to Lofar database
• HR_PASSWORD, password to connect to Lofar database

Installation:

To install frbcat-web, please follow the following steps. First we need to install the dependencies of frbcat-web using the following commands:

  npm ci

Next, we build the package using:

  npm run webpack

Running the express server with ltacat:

To start the express server with frbcat-web loaded use the following command:

npm run start

To run both backends (ltacat and lofar_workflow_api) behind the same server use CaddyServer by running it in root of this repo with:

caddy

The web application is running at http://localhost:2015 after running CaddyServer.