Build and start

This works mostly the same as our earlier build.

• Make sure that Docker Desktop is started.

• Open Terminal in:
  <GITDIR>\senseeact\ExampleSenSeeActService

• Make sure that you have the correct version of gradle.properties.

• Enter this command:

  > .\gradlew webBuild dockerDevBuild dockerDevStart
  

There are three Gradle tasks for Docker that you can use:

• dockerDevBuild:
  Builds the Docker images senseeacttomcat and senseeactweb:dev.

• dockerDevStart:
  Creates and starts the Docker containers, using docker compose up -d.

• dockerStop:
  Stops and removes the Docker containers, using docker compose down.

When you have started SenSeeAct, you can access the same URLs as the earlier build.

Web application

A difference with our earlier deployment is that we are using the Docker image senseeactweb:dev instead of senseeactweb:latest. This way you can edit the web application files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), quickly build them and then refresh your browser to see the changes without the need to restart SenSeeAct completely.

The source files are in this directory:
<GITDIR>\senseeact\SenSeeActService\src\main\web

You can create the same directory in your service implementation, in our case the example service:
<GITDIR>\senseeact\ExampleSenSeeActService\src\main\web

The Gradle task webBuild copies the files (and builds Handlebars templates) from these two directories to this build directory:
<GITDIR>\senseeact\ExampleSenSeeActService\build\web-src

The directories are copied in the given order. This allows you to create files in the second directory that overwrite files from the first directory. The build directory is eventually served by senseeactweb:dev.

So after making a change, you need to build the files first.

• Open Terminal in:
  <GITDIR>\senseeact\ExampleSenSeeActService

• Enter this command:

  > .\gradlew webBuild
  

Then you can refresh your browser.