Chart.js++

A user-friendly platform to draw hierarchical charts using an extension to Chart.js.

Installation

Create the .env file

• Make a copy of the .env_sample file and rename the copy as .env.
• Open the .env file with a text editor and modify the environment variables appropriately.

Install node modules

• Make sure that you have Node and npm installed.

• Open a terminal this directory.

• Run the following command,

  npm install
  

Run the server

• Make sure that the Mongodb server is running and the connection string is set correctly in the .env file

• Run the following command to start the application server,

  npm start
  

Testing

Testing is optional

Create the .env file

• Make a copy of the .env_sample file in the test directory and rename the copy as .env in the test directory.
• Open the .env file in the test directory with a text editor and modify the environment variables appropriately.

Install node modules

• Make sure that you have Node and npm installed.

• Open a terminal this directory.

• Run the following command,

  npm install --production=false
  

Run tests

• Open a terminal this directory (if not already opened).

• Run the following command,

  npm test