A webapp to coordinate aid and care in the Twin Cities. https://twin-cities-mutual-aid.org/
This project is only a few days old, and things are changing very rapidly. We'll do our best to keep this readme up-to-date, but if something doesn't look right, it's probably out of date.
This project is unusual because there are two separate, siloed teams working in tandem:
- Website team: This team (us) is using a channel within the Open Twin Cities slack to communicate. There's a link at the top of the Open Twin Cities website to join, if you'd like to help out.
- Data team: The team working on updating the underlying data to ensure the real-time info is up-to-date is partly coordinated via a very large Facebook group called South Minneapolis Mutual Aid Autonomous Zone Coordination. We don't have much more information at this time, but will update this when we do.
We're using Github Issues to manage tasks, and have a kanban board set up. If you'd like access to the kanban board reach out in the OTC slack channel.
If you've got a feature request or feedback to share on the website, feel free to submit an issue on GH issues, or bring it up in slack.
Data is sourced from a google spreadsheet.
- Example spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ETV6xakGCkp3dmgfpayjEBQii8p_ElMXYuDut3EDZTE/edit#gid=0
- Google Apps Script utility script also available to automatically update a row timestamp and insert latitude and longitude when an address cell is added or updated: https://github.com/mc-funk/community-map-google-scripts/
To test locally with your own copy of the spreadsheet, duplicate the example spreadsheet, make your changes, and re-publish it. Then follow the steps https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cjn-google-sheets-as-json-endpoint to extract the sheet ID out of the url to plug into the DATA_URL const.
const DATA_URL = 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/1XJhbzcT_AubgnqAJRsbOEbMO3HPTybG3yNcX6i-BgH0/1/public/full?alt=json'
This started as a very lightweight, single page html file, and we've tried very hard to keep things as simple as possible.
To run a development server that will auto-reload on save, run this command from the project directory:
npm run dev
A server will run on http://localhost:8080
Alternately, you can run npx http-server, or install https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server and run http-server (defaulting to port 8080).