Backend ‐ build

How to build the Backend

Deployment

• when running the main command npm run deploy the Backend api container is build and deployed.
• to deploy the Data Pipeline navigate to the /backend directory and run docker compose up -d to start the docker containers for the datapipeline project and the database.

Development

• Do develop both the Data Pipeline and the Backend Api you need Visual Studio installed. The solutions can be built and tested from within Visual Studio.
• Please look at the Configuration details given in Data Pipeline to be able to run the Datapipeline Project.

Backend Architecture overview

The infrastructure of the backend is split into four components:

• API Project
• Database
• Preprocessing
• Data pipeline

API Project:

The API project receives the requests from the frontend. Based on the request the data is read from the database. This data is processed and send to the frontend.

Database:

The database stores the data from the csv-source files, the pre-processed data and information about the datasets.

Preprocessing:

The preprocessing reads the raw data from the database. Does some calculations and filtering, and saves the new data in the database.

Data pipeline:

The data pipeline reads the data from a given csv-source file. This data gets parsed and filtered, and is the stored in the database.