Government of Canada Vehicle Recall

Demo

A (very, very slow) copy of this repository is currently running on Heroku here.

Purpose

This application serves a basic web form interface for querying and displaying recall data from the Government of Canada API.

Details

The application is written in TypeScript as an HTML5 application, utilizing Node and Bower for package management and tsd for TypeScript definitions.

Getting Started

After cloning the repository, open a terminal / command prompt and invoke:

npm install && bower install

Once this has run its course, you will have all of the dependencies required to start the server.

Starting the server

At the terminal / command prompt, invoke the following command:

node node-app.js

This will start the application on port 3000 by default. You can now open a browser to http://localhost:3000 and begin using the basic form controls to query the recall database.

Note on forking

This was developed with JetBrains WebStorm 9.0.3, using the built-in TypeScript file watcher process. To modify the TypeScript files manually, you'll need to use an IDE that has a similar capability, or configure your build process to leverage tsc.exe (a la grunt-tsc) to generate .js files that can be served by the browser.