Seismic Explorer

Latest stable version:

https://seismic-explorer.concord.org

Latest development version:

https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/branch/master/index.html

Old versions can be accessed via /version/<tag> path, e.g.:

https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/version/1.1.0/index.html

Configuration

Take a look at the authoring page.

Some options can be set using URL parameters, for example:

• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?minLat=5&maxLat=70&minLng=-170&maxLng=-50 - limit initial map boundaries to North America.
• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?startTime=2016-08-01&endTime=2016-08-31 - limit date range to one month.
• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?tileLimit=20000 - set max number of earthquakes downloaded per one map tile to 20000 (default 12000).
• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?api=USGS - use USGS API instead of Concord API.
• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?cache=false - don't use CloudFront CDN / caching.
• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?logging=false - disable logging (to CC Log Manager, Google Analytics and the web browser console).
• https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?earthquakesDisplayAllOnStart - show all earthquakes on launch, as if playback had completed.

Data layer presets:

1. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?exclusiveDataLayers&plateBoundariesAvailable=false&volcanoesAvailable=false&plateMovementAvailable=false
2. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?exclusiveDataLayers&volcanoesAvailable=false&plateMovementAvailable=false
3. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?exclusiveDataLayers&volcanoesAvailable=false&volcanoesVisible&plateMovementAvailable=false
4. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?exclusiveDataLayers
5. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/
6. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?exclusiveDataLayers&plateBoundariesAvailable=false&earthquakesAvailable=false&earthquakesVisible=false&volcanoesVisible&plateMovementAvailable=false
7. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?plateBoundariesAvailable=false&volcanoesVisible&plateMovementAvailable=false
8. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?volcanoesVisible&plateMovementAvailable=false
9. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?plateBoundariesAvailable=false&earthquakesAvailable=false&earthquakesVisible=false&volcanoesVisible&plateMovementAvailable=false
10. https://seismic-explorer.concord.org/?plateBoundariesVisible&volcanoesVisible&plateMovementVisible

Development

First, you need to make sure that webpack is installed and all the NPM packages required by this project are available:

npm install -g webpack
npm install

Then you can build the project files using:

webpack

or start webpack dev server:

npm install -g webpack-dev-server
webpack-dev-server

and open http://localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/webpack-dev-server/ (auto-reload after each code change).

The back-end API is maintained separately here: https://github.com/concord-consortium/seismic-explorer-api

Frameworks, conventions

This app is built using React, Redux and ImmutableJS. If you are not familiar with one of these, take a look at this great tutorial. It also uses lots of ES6 syntax, so it might be good to review it first. Semicolons are discussable, but I've decided to follow Redux examples style.

Some things that may be confusing when you start working with Redux (or at least they had been confusing for me):

• Should I create component or container? A good article and the most important part:

When you notice that some components don’t use the props they receive but merely forward them down and you have to rewire all those intermediate components any time the children need more data, it’s a good time to introduce some container components. This way you can get the data and the behavior props to the leaf components without burdening the unrelated components in the middle of the tree.

• Is it okay to still use React's state? I think so, and so does Redux's author.

Additional, useful resources:

• Redux examples
• normalizr transforms JSON data from Portal (flattens structure and groups objects by IDs)

CSS styles

• Browser specific prefixes are not necessary, as this project uses autoprefixer, which will add them automatically.
• Webpack parses URLs in CSS too, so it will either copy resources automatically to /dist or inline them in CSS file. That applies to images and fonts (take a look at webpack config).
• All the styles are included by related components in JS files. Please make sure that those styles are scoped to the top-level component class, so we don't pollute the whole page. It's not very important right now, but might become important if this page becomes part of the larger UI. And I believe it's a good practice anyway.
• I would try to make sure that each component specifies all its necessary styles to look reasonably good and it doesn't depend on styles defined somewhere else (e.g. in parent components). Parent components or global styles could be used to theme components, but they should work just fine without them too.

License

MIT