Helios

DSSD is collaborating with Helios to create an Analytics page for the solar arrays on UW-Madison's campus. Data is collected by the solar arrays and by a solar irradiance meter on top of the engineering building.

Project Management

To contribute to the project, assign an issue to yourself and create a new branch off of main and implement the feature/fix/improvement, making commits after completing each subsection of the work. Push your code and create a pull request (PR) into main linked to the issue it addresses.

PRs will be reviewed by at least one project member before merging.

Development

To install dependencies, run:

npm run i-recur

This will install the dependencies for both the frontend and function directories.

You'll also have to login to firebase with:

firebase login

To serve the Firebase emulator suite and the frontend (connected to the emulators), run:

npm run dev

The dev server will refresh each time you save new changes to project files.

Deployment

The frontend will automatically deploy on merge into main.

Backend:

To deploy the Firebase functions, change directory into functions and run:

npm run deploy

To deploy the firestore rules or storage rules, run the following commands respectively from the root directory:

npm run deploy-firestore
npm run deploy-storage