Setting up the development environment

To set up the development environment, you need to have the following elements:

• An elasticsearch instance (running either on your local machine, on a server of your choice - maybe with SSH port-forwarding)
• A development environment for Java (Spring Boot) and JavaScript (React)

Running the services

The services are located at service/services. You can find two different maven projects you should be able to integrate into your IDE. Additionally, there is a kg-common library in the service/libs directory. The two main projects are stand-alone Spring Boot services and therefore can run alongside each other.

Please note, that - depending on what you want to do - you don't need both services to be running. If you want to work on the UI, it is often enough to only run the kg-search service (unless you want to improve / debug the actual indexing process).

Running the UI

To run the UI, you can simply execute

npm install
npm run start

to launch the UI in a development server. If you want to update the configuration (e.g. different server endpoint) please have a look at the setupProxy.js in the src directory.