RSX Rover 2017

• React frontend
• Express backend
• Connection to Arduino

Running the full toolkit

Navigate to the folder where you've installed everything

Installing Front-end

• $ cd RoverDashboard
• $ npm install
• $ npm install -g http-server
• $ npm install -g webpack
• $ webpack Compile the front-end

Running Front-end

• $ cd RoverDashboard
• $ http-server -p 3000 # runs the frontend
• Navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser

Installing Server

• $ npm install

Running Server

In a new window

• $ cd server
• $ node main.js # runs the server

Starting Drive

• Connect computer to the router
• Run the front-end and server.
• Click on the gear
• Hit connect for the drive arduino
• Select drive for the relevant joystick

Server Command line arguments

• -h enables help
• -all-arduinos enables all the arduinos on serial ports. see main.js for how to enable specific systems
• -v enables verbose debugging

Notes:

• You can copy example_config.json to config.json if you need to set your own settings. The latter will have a higher priority.