TVChartWeb

A silly project, based on an equally silly project, to keep track of the TV we're watching. The original version generated a PDF to be filled in, but periodically reprinting the PDF was a pain. This project reimplements it as a webapp that can be accessed from all our devices and doesn't need to be printed out ever.

Development notes

During development, the app runs off a Docker image tv-chart-dev. This image doesn't contain the app's code and data: they're mapped in from the project's working directories (./code and ./data).

To start the dev environment:

1. With Docker running, run ./run.dev to start the app dev environment. It starts the app in a container, mapping the app's source code directly from the working directory (./code), and using nodemon so the app is rebuilt and restarted when the code changes. It tails the app's output log.
2. To also enable live updating for front-end changes (to files in ./code/frontend), in another terminal window, go to ./code/frontend and run npx webpack --watch.

The Docker image rarely needs to change, since it doesn't contain the app's code and data. In the rare case when it needs to be updated, run dockerize.dev to rebuild it.

To stop the dev app, run ./stop.dev.

Releasing

To release an update to production:

1. Rebuild the production Docker image (taskmaster.local:5000/tv-chart), run ./dockerize.prod.
2. docker push taskmaster.local:5000/tv-chart to push it to the repository. (At this writing, this is a locally hosted private repository. Substitute the hostname and port of another repository if necessary.)
3. Make sure run.prod and docker-compose.prod.yml have both been copied to the production host.
4. On the production host, pull the image, stop the running app, and run run.prod.