A one-page web application for finding and comparing A-level schools, using data provided by the Department for Education. Check it out at alevels.herokuapp.com. Somewhat inspired by Guardian's GCSE schools guide.
To run this locally, you will need:
- Node.js (for the web server)
- MongoDB
- Python (for populating the database)
To set up the database, rename db/mongo_admin.json.example to db/mongo_admin.json and change both url in mongo_admin.json and DATABASE_URL in config.js to the URL of your MongoDB instance. Then, to populate the database, open the console in the db folder of this project and run:
python insert_schools.py
python update_location.py
python update_results.py
(You will need the xlrd Python package installed. Oh, and populating the database will take a while. It will finish at some point, I promise.)
After that, move to the root folder of this project and install all Node.js dependencies:
npm install
...build with Grunt by running:
grunt
...and run the server:
node app
If nothing went wrong so far, you should be able to access the server at http://localhost:8000.
This is my 2013/2014 A-level Computing project. Some bad decisions have been made while building it and its infrastructure is a bit of a mess. I have left it partially unfinished, since some of the features I wanted to implement required a complete rewrite.
If you're making something similar, feel free to make use of whatever "good parts" and ideas you find in this project. Hopefully there are some.