nopalm: A TypeScript repository from existentialcoder

Manage your node projects from user interface

RATIONALE

Node Project Manager sounded very close to Nopalm(also sounding similar to Napalm :)). Hence the name!
I always faced difficulties in searching a relevant package while working on a node project and heavily craved for an UI since coming back and forth between browser and terminal killed productivity
To solve this, I thought of developing Nopalm (Node Project Manager) with an exciting web user interface to search, install and uninstall packages from a single place
You can also scaffold a new node project
This project is heavily inspired from Vue-UI

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App

USAGE

Install the npm package globally and run the local server inside any node project directory / empty directory
```
 npm i -g nopalm
 cd /path/to/target_dir && nopalm
```
Visit http://localhost:8001 to start managing your node project

To run locally

Pre installed requirements

node > 10
npm or yarn

Steps

Clone the repository
Install packages in client and server
```
npm i

cd client/
npm i
```

To run the development version

Add this .env file in the /client folder

echo "REACT_APP_API_BASE_URL='http://localhost:8001'" >> .env.development.local`

Run the react client
```
cd client
npm run start
```

Run the server in an existing node project

cd /path/to/target_node_project
npm run dev --prefix /path/to/nopalm

Visit https://localhost:3000 To run the production version

Build the UI and run the server alone

cd client/

<!-- Build the React client -->
npm run build

<!-- cd to target node project -->
cd /path/to/target_node_project

npm run start --prefix /path/to/nopalm

Visit https://localhost:8001
Follow the same steps for testing in empty directory

Testing APIs

Once you run the node server you might find this interesting to test it using Postman