Smart City Münster Dashboard

This project contains the source code of the frontend of the smart city dashboard. The display can connect to the backend and shows different kinds of environmental and smart city related data. The dashboard contains three different pages: dashboard view, map view and an info page.

Running the project

Clone the repo
cd smart-city-dashboard
cp .env.example .env
Change the env variable REACT_APP_API_URL to the URL of the backend
yarn or npm install
yarn build or npm build
Serve the build folder with your favorite webserver

Development

The same as "Running the Project" but instead of steps 6 and 7 do the following:

yarn start or npm start

Technology

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

The frontend is written in typescript and uses react. State management is done with redux and redux-saga. The page style and layout is done with bulma, while components are styled with styled-components. Data visualization on the dashboard is either custom written (e.g. parking) or visualized with apexcharts (e.g. charts).

Dev Technology

We are using typescript for type safety. In order to have consistend formatting / styling of the code, we are using husky, lint-staged and prettier.

File Structure

.vscode Settings when developing with VSCode
public Static files that will be served as is
scripts Scripts for maintaining the project
src Source code. This also includes the react entry point, service workers and types
- actions Redux actions (splitted for each data source)
- components React Components
- pages Pages of the website
- reducers Redux reducers (splitted for each data source)
- resources Assets that will be compiled (like icons, images etc)
- sagas redux sagas (Sagas are implemented using generator functions)
- views Containers that display data (splitted for each data source)

Available Visualizations

Tile: Displaying numbers with units and titles in tiles / cards
Progress: Visualizing progress which is here used to show the utilization of parking decks
Line diagram: visualizing (multiple) lines in a diagram

How to add a new data source

If you want to add a new data source to the dashboard, there are multiple steps neccessary:

Start in the src/reducers folder and create a new reducer similar to the existing ones. Here, you will also define the state for your particular dataset
Next one, create corresponding actions for your data in the src/actions folder
After defining how the data should be stored and managed, we can take care of fething the data. Create a new saga in the src/sagas folder similar to the existing files. The generator functions will fetch data regularly based on the interval you can define

Show the data on the dashboard

The most labour will take place in src/views where you create a new container for your data. Here, you need to access the redux state and render different kinds of visualizations
You can now import your container in pages/Home to display it on the main page. You might need to adjust the overall page layout here

Add license header to file

After creating a new file in the src directory, please run the license-header script to prepend a comment with license information to the file. You can simply run

yarn license-header # or npm run license-header

which automatically updates the file

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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