DEPRECATED

I rewrote this in Ionic so that I could have a native mobile app to play around with. It turned out usable for myself, so I replaced the web UI as well. You can find it over at jakswa/martaionic

martaio

Marta.io is currently a dashboard for Marta's realtime train API, and shows train arrival estimates:

Implementation

It's a simple Nodejs app that uses AngularJS on the client-side. It has no database or other server-side storage. The server-side simply serves as a cache of a single API endpoint from Marta. The client-side code consumes that proxied data and does the rest of the work. We scaffolded this app using Yeoman's Angular Fullstack Generator.

As of March 2015, there now exists a dev-only task that parses MARTA's GTFS files (CSV format), and creates JSON files for schedule-related data. See here or here for more information.

FAQ

Can you add a map so I can see the train?

I can, but all the ideas I have for this suck. I'll need a designer to figure out a couple things for me (hopefully with comps, but I'll take what I can get). We don't have GPS data for trains. For a given train, we can only say, "this train is between these two stations" or "this train is at this station." All the ideas I have for showing those two states on a map have been messy and kind of useless.

Forking your own

1. You need an API key from Marta to run this app. You can request one from Marta.
2. Set the MARTA_TRAIN_API_KEY environment variable to the key you received from Marta.
3. Run the App.

• While developing, you use grunt serve to start things up.
• When deploying to a hosting service, you use grunt build to generate a deployable version in the /dist directory, and then deploy the contents of that directory.

For example, after setting up a heroku app to deploy to heroku, I run:

• grunt build
• cd dist
• git commit [...]
• git remote add heroku [email protected]:your-heroku-app.git (if I haven't already run this)
• git push heroku master to deploy to Heroku.

Optional Newrelic Integration

I installed newrelic on this app today, to see how well it works for Node apps. If you're running your own and want to start reporting to newrelic, set the NEWRELIC_LICENSE_KEY environment variable to your newrelic key.