This is the repo for the iFlood web interface currently hosted at iflood.vse.gmu.edu. Originally developed by William O'Connell.
The site is built using the static site generator Harp. Templates use EJS and styles are written in SASS. Harp compiles these source files into HTML and CSS. The compiled files are hosted on Amazon S3, with Amazon's CloudFront CDN to help improve load times.
There are two separate S3 buckets. Bucket gmu-iflood-data is where forecast data is uploaded. Bucket gmu-iflood-interface hosts the front end website which makes AJAX calls to the data bucket.
Alerts are handled through AWS API Gateway, which calls a collection of Lambda functions. The source for these functions can be found in /lambda, but if you make any changes to them you'll need to update the version in AWS manually.
In order to make changes to the site, you'll first need to install harp (npm install -g harp) and set up the AWS CLI. Best practice would be to set up a new IAM user for yourself (making sure to check the "programmatic access" box so AWS will generate CLI access keys for you), but I've placed my access keys on the research drive (Z:/Website_Media/_AWS_KEYS) just in case.
Once that's up and running, you can make your code changes in the /public folder and run upload.bat. Harp will compile your changes to the /www folder, which will then be uploaded to S3. Don't forget to commit your changes!