Acronymy | Your personalized acronyms search engine
Contributors
Raheel Iftikhar
Install NodeJS
Follow this tutorial and install NodeJS based on your operating system. You can check that Node is installed by writing these commands on console
node -v and npm -v
Install Angular CLI
Install Angular CLI package by following this command npm install -g @angular/cli
Install Http Server
Make sure you have installed http server e.g Apache and its running. You can test this by typing http://localhost:8080 in browser.
-To install apache on windows follow this tutorial -To install apache on linux based operating system follow this tutorial
Download Acronymy
Download the Acronymy app and unzip it.
Install NodeJS Packages
Move into the application directory and install NodeJS packages by running the command npm install.
Build App
After install NodeJS packages you can build the app by this command ng build in the application directory. If you get any error make sure NodeJS and Angular-cli is properly installed.
After that run this command node server.js in application directory and then browser http://localhost:3000 in browser. You should see the application running.
Personalizing Acronym Seach
You can use advance search to select/unselect the categories you want to be included in seach. You can also upload your json, csv, xlsx and zip files to be included in search. The file format should be as follows:
- Set the Acronym column name as Key (Case sensitive)
- Set the Abbreviation column name as Abbreviation (Case sensitive)
- Set the column name you want to show for detail as Description (Case sensitive)
Deployment
To deploy follow this tutorial