star-wars-browser

A front-end for The Star Wars API

Except it's not quite that anymore, I ended up rolling my own API which pulls data from SWAPI.

Frontend

Clone the repo and install dependencies

Note: I've used some Font Awesome Pro icons so the yarn/npm install will fail unless you provide a valid npm auth token for the private npm.fontawesome.com registry. Either set an FA_NPM_TOKEN environment variable to your token, or replace ${FA_NPM_TOKEN} in .npmrc with your token.

git clone https://github.com/bkbooth/star-wars-browser.git
cd star-wars-browser
yarn

Start the dev server

yarn start

To build a static version into the dist directory

yarn build

Server

With the main repo cloned, navigate to the server directory and install dependencies

cd server
yarn

Start the server

# watches for changes and restarts server
yarn watch

# runs without watching/restarting
yarn start

Seed data into the SQLite database

yarn seed

By default the seed script will not make requests to https://swapi.co, it will load from locally cached JSON files. To load fresh data from https://swapi.co (and regenerate the cached JSON files)

rm data/*.json
yarn seed