gowherene is a webapp to help Singaporeans plot food recommendations, such as thesmartlocal's http://thesmartlocal.com/read/cheap-food-orchard, on a map.
These popular blogs do not have a map view for their recommendations, so I built gowherene to help visualise the geographical locations of the recommendations for better decision making.
Some carefully-tested recommendations pages are
- http://thesmartlocal.com/read/restaurants-with-no-gst
- http://thesmartlocal.com/read/singapore-cafes-with-no-gst
- https://sethlui.com/best-burgers-singapore/
- https://www.sassymamasg.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-local-breakfast-in-singapore/
- https://www.misstamchiak.com/local-breakfast-east-singapore/
gowherene can also plot addresses, not just recommendations! Try:
You will need at least version 1.10.1.727 of the Clojure CLI installed.
While parsing a page to find address information,
the code often refers to data or address-info, a map of:
| key | value |
|---|---|
:postal-code-loc |
The loc (as in point in hickory) where the postal code was found, together with some address information |
:header-loc |
The loc of the heuristically-determined header for this :postal-code-loc |
:place |
The name of this place |
:address |
The address of this place |
:latlng |
The latitude and longitude of this place |
In emacs, do cider-jack-in, then at the user> prompt, do
user> (def server (start-gowherene))
... elided ...
#'user/server
And then check that the backend is up with curl:
curl -X GET 'http://localhost:3000/parse/?url=http://thesmartlocal.com/read/restaurants-with-no-gst' | jq
user> (.stop server)
Do C-c M-J and when prompted, enter figwheel-main. When asked for build, enter dev
A browser tab should open, pointing to http://localhost:9500.
To build for production
make
This should build both the backend and frontend.
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build -t test .GOWHERENE_DEBUG=1 java -cp target/gowherene.jar clojure.main -m gowherene.core
The above should start a server on port 3000.
With docker, do
docker run --rm --publish 3000:3000 --env PORT=3000 --env GOOGLE_API_TOKEN=<token> --env GOWHERENE_DEBUG=1 -it testTo query it,
curl -vv -X GET 'http://localhost:3000/parse/?url=http://thesmartlocal.com/read/restaurants-with-no-gst' | jq
Push to master, render.com will pick it up from GitHub and deploy it.
Go to netlify, drag and drop target/dist to upload.
In gowherene, I am expecting the following environment variables to be in place.
| key | value |
|---|---|
:google-api-token |
API token for Google Maps geocoding API |
:port |
The port to run the server at (defaults to 3000) |
:gowherene-debug |
Set to true to prevent auto redirecting to HTTPS on port 443 |
For development, I use a .lein-env file in the project directory, which looks like
{:google-api-token "xxx"
:gowherene-debug true}
.lein-envworks even without using leiningen becauseenvironlooks for that file
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