nextline-web v0.8.25
Nextline-web
The front-end web app of Nextline.
Nextline is a DAQ sequencer of the Observatory Control System (OCS). Nextline allows line-by-line execution of concurrent Python scripts, which control telescopes, by multiple users simultaneously from web browsers.
How to run the Nextline front-end web app
The section shows how to run the Nextline front-end web app. To start, you need to know the URL of the back-end API server.
As a Docker container
Docker images of the Nextline front-end web app are created as ghcr.io/simonsobs/nextline-web.
Environment variables in the container
You can configure the web app in the container with these variables.
| Environment variable | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|
PUBLIC_PATH | / | Path in the URL of the web app |
API_HTTP | http://localhost:8000 | URL of the GraphQL API server |
API_NAME | localhost | Text to be shown as part of the title |
For example, if you are to run the web app at the port 8080 with the path
/nextline/ and use the GraphQL API server at http://localhost:5000/graphql as the name API 1, you can do so with the following command.
docker run -p 8080:80 -e PUBLIC_PATH=/nextline/ -e API_HTTP=http://localhost:5000/-e API_NAME="API 1" graphql ghcr.io/simonsobs/nextline-webIf you are on the localhost, the web app is running at http://localhost:8080/nextline/.
License
- Nextline is licensed under the MIT license.