Ivy Server
This is the backend to the Ivy application described in our paper "Ivy: An Integrated Visualization Editor via Parameterized Declarative Templates". In consists of a simple express wrapper over postgres that enables sharing of templates and template thumbnails.
Setup
Please have node version >=9 installed (12 preferred). Install the deps as typically for a js project:
yarn
Next have postgres installed in the usual way. Connect to it and create the database like
CREATE DATABASE ivy;
Then compose your DATABASE_URL, which will be something like DATABASE_URL=postgresql://username:password@localhost:5432/ivy . Finally run:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://username:password@localhost:5432/ivy yarn migrate up
Finally run the server:
yarn start
And that should be it!