Orchestration Engine

A system for authoring and executing Orchestration Scripts that support member of an Agile Research Studios (ARS) community learn the skills to access a community of support for their research work.

Prerequisites

1. Make sure you have Node.js, yarn, and MongoDB installed.
2. Clone the Studio API if you plan to do local development.

Setup for local development

1. Create a .env file as follows:

   NODE_ENV=development
   PORT=5001
   DEBUG=true
   STUDIO_API_URL=http://localhost:3000
   MONGODB_URI=mongodb://localhost/orchestration-engine
   TZ=UTC
   

Development

1. Start the Studio API per instructions in the README of it's repo.
2. Run yarn to download the necessary packages.
3. Run yarn run dev to start the local Node.js application.
4. In a separate tab, start the MongoDB daemon using mongod --dbpath=<PATH_TO_DB>.
   1. Note: if you have cloned and started the Studio API before this step, you will not need to do it again since the daemon will be running.

Deployment

For production, use the following environment variables:

NODE_ENV=production
PORT=8080
STUDIO_API_URL=<url of deployed studio api>
MONGODB_URI=<url of mongodb>
MINUTE=30
TZ=UTC