Sample data for development

[jglovier]

As we are building out and designing for new components, having a data migration/sync solution in place would add a lot of efficiency to our development process.

@jkleinsc can you get something like this setup? It would be especially useful for me as I'm doing style work on the patient details section, etc.

[jglovier]

Bump. Any progress on this? This would be hugely helpful for UI work.

[tangollama]

Thought: we could create an administration function that loaded a set data into a database for this purpose. I think this 100% makes sense, since we're trying to make "make it easy to develop in" a goal.

[jglovier]

Bump. With the new influx of folks interested in helping out, having seed data would be really helpful for local dev. And still would be really helpful for me as I'm working on the UI. 😁

[jglovier]

[jkleinsc]

We should be able to use pouchdb-load and pouchdb-dump-cli to do this.
Basically, we just need someone to do the following:

1. Setup a new empty instance of HospitalRun frontend
2. Populate that instance with sample data.
3. Run pouchdb-dump-cli to dump out the current couchdb. e.g. pouchdb-dump http://localhost:5984/main -u hradmin -p test | cat > sample_data.txt.
4. Create a node utility that uses pouchdb-load to load the dump.

[jglovier]

@jkleinsc okay, I'll run through steps 1-3 and then probably will need help with step 4.

[jkleinsc]

@jglovier did you get anywhere with this? If not I am going to run with it.

[jglovier]

@jkleinsc I did, but haven't found time to get it finished. If you feel like you want to tackle it and can get it done before I will, go for it. I'm not sure I'll have a chance to pick it back up in the next few days.

[jkleinsc]

I've got a working solution and it turn out way better than I was originally envisioning. Expect an update soon

[jglovier]