Peek Platform - Desktop Service

The Peek Desktop service contains the Angular Web and Electron (TODO) build environments.

The frontend uses typescript + bootstrap3 + angular2

Development

Web Frontend

The frontend is compiled/built from the backend python software when it starts. The python backend then serves up the the webpack bundles. This is accessible via http://<ip>:8002

When you are developing with the frontend for Web, you can start development mode with:

cd <project dir>/peek_desktop
npm start

This will start a NODE development server. It will watch the project files, rebuild the project and live reload the browser when you make changes. It's accessed via http://<ip>:4002

There is a proxy.conf.json file that is configured to pass through certain resources to the backend server. This allows the NODE development server to hand handle all the assets and the backend to still handle the file uploads, vortex, etc.