DepartureBoard

Welcome

This project is an angular website designed to present the UK and German train departures in a way similar to the led boards you find in stations accross the UK. For more info please see https://www.leddepartureboard.com

How to Use

1. To change the station just modify the url. E.g http://your-site.com/EUS will show euston station times
2. To change the amount of boards on the screen just add a number to the end. E.g http://your-site.com/EUS/12
3. To view a platform style board just modify the url with a prefix of 'singleboard'. E.g http://your-site.com/singleboard/EUS

Working Example

To view a running example head over to https://www.leddepartureboard.com/EUS/12

Technology

• Angular frontend using typescript as the scriping language.
• C# asp.net core backend to retrieve the departure data.
• Runs using dotnet core so is cross compatible accross operating systems.
• Uses google firebase as the document storage and user authentication.

Docker

This project is also build into a docker image every time we merge to master. This means you can run this website very easiy simply by runnning the command
docker run -p 8080:80 -e "RealTimeTrainsToken=[INSERT_REALTIMETRAINS_TOKEN_HERE]" benfl3713/departure-board
This will run the website on port 8080 of the host

There is also a docker-compose file in this repository that will make it easier to spin up the website with the command
docker-compose up

Run locally

1. Make sure you have the following installed on your machine

   • node.js
   • dotnet 6.0 sdk

2. Clone this repository locally

   git clone https://github.com/benfl3713/DepartureBoard.git
   cd DepartureBoard
   

3. Install dependencies

   cd DepartureBoardWeb/ClientApp
   npm install
   

4. Create config.xml file inside DepartureBoardWeb, and put the following in, making sure to put you realtimetrains token in

   <Config>
     <RealTimeTrainsToken>[INSERT_REALTIMETRAINS_TOKEN_HERE]</RealTimeTrainsToken>
   </Config>
   

5. Either use vscode and press F5 to run the application, or inside the DepartureBoardWeb folder run dotnet run