This project contains a simplified version of the Wellbeing Indicators website as a demonstration of how such a site might instead be built to be dynamic.
The PoC is written in Scala using the Play Framework, and, essentially, consists of a single template that is populated dynamically. The indicators themselves are provided as files in specific formats, all placed in a single folder which is read by configuration. The project is provided with just 5 indicators, but if more were added to the folder, then all that would be required to include them would be to restart the application.
As a further conceptual demonstration, a small number of endpoints have also been created so that data can also be retrieved programmatically.
To build a self-contained zip which can be deployed anywhere, simply run:
sbt distThis will produce something like target/universal/ianzpoc-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip. Simply unzip the archive and then simply start the application via:
cd <path-to-app> && bin/ianzpoc
By default, the app assumes that indicator data can be read from ./indicators. If this is not the case, then the appdata configuration variable must be overridden as appropriate. This can be done easily at the command-line as follows:
<path-to-app>/bin/ianzpoc -Dappdata=/path-to-indicators/indicators
To view the application, visit http://localhost:9000.
