Portable local version on RaspberryPi

[will-saunders]

It would be nice to have a version/branch of the app that could run locally on a raspberry pi without an internet connection.

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 and am starting to build.

Components needed:

• Raspberry PI
• NodeJS
• MongoDB locally
• App cloned from github
• DB cloned from Mongo service
• Some way of figuring out the server url on a lan
• Some way of exporting the team config or results

[will-saunders]

Ok - I got it running.
Started with a bare Raspberry Pi 3 - 64bit architecture
Installed Ubuntu 18.04 server on microSDcard and booted
Set user pasword
Leaving the machine with no GUI desktop to keep speed reasonable
Installed Aptitude (sudo apt install aptitude) for easier package maintenance
Installed Avahi (gives the device a recognizable hostname even on a DHCP network)
Installed nodejs (sudo apt install nodejs)
Cloned the repo to /var/www/html (probably not the best place to put it)
Installed mongod (sudo install mongod)
Made a data directory for mongo as /home/ubuntu/data/db
Started a second ssh shell instance
Started mongo in the second shell with custom data path (mongod --dbpath /home/ubuntu/data/db)
Started keystone (cd /var/www/html/ACT/BCAT/survey-app/ then npm start)
Switch to web browser and open http://pi-act.local:3000

[will-saunders]

on first run it took about 5 seconds to load the landing page; about 10 seconds to log in; about 30 seconds to load keystone config. May need to stop some services on the pi.