A developer-oriented local deployment tool for VIAplanner, which can simulate a production environment composed of the frontend, backend, and cron-task scraping

NOTE: This tool is only for local development currently, as production deployment is not structured using Docker Compose.

Prerequisites:

1. You have cloned and placed the following repos at the same directory as this repo, with folder names matching repo names

• via-timetable: https://github.com/VIAplanner/via-timetable
• via-api: https://github.com/VIAplanner/via-api
• UofT-Scraper: https://github.com/Kelexer1/UofT-Scraper

With Automated Scraping

docker compose up --build

This will start the frontend and backend on http://localhost/, and automatically update the database once.

Without Automated Scraping

docker compose up frontend backend nginx --build

This will start the frontend and backend on http://localhost/, assuming that backend has it's environment variables. The database will not be modified. It is recommended to use a local MongoDB database and populate it once before testing without automated scraping.