Vy Lowfare

Link to deployed project As of 08.01.20, Vy has blocked the IP of the server that the project is hosted on. I therefore need to transfer the backend to call the Entur API instead to get the project back up...

Tool to find best train prices in Norway.

Built with Vue, Buefy, and .NET Core.

Installing / Getting started

Requirements

• .NET core 3.0
• npm
• docker (optional)

Docker

The easiest way to get this project running (locally) is by using docker. Make sure you have docker engine and docker-compose installed. Then simply open a terminal and navigate to the root folder of the project. Then run the command

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d

you should now be able to open http://localhost in your browser and see the app.

Manually

To run this project you should have npm installed

Navigate to the Backend folder and run the following:

dotnet restore
dotnet run

This installs the backend dependencies and runs the backend. You can also start the backend by pressing 'F5' in Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.

In another terminal navigate to the Frontend folder and run the following:

npm install
npm run serve

This installs the frontend dependencies and runs the Frontend.

Backend

To build and run the backend Docker container

Navigate to the Backend folder and build the docker image with the following command:

docker build -t vy-backend-img .

Then run the docker image with this command:

docker run -d -p 5000:80 --name vy-backend vy-backend-img

The backend is now running in a detached docker container

Frontend

To build and run the frontend Docker container

Navigate to the Frontend folder and build the docker image with the following command:

docker build -t vy-frontend-img .

Then run the docker image with this command:

docker run -it -p 80:80 --rm --name vy-frontend vy-frontend-img

The frontend container is now running and can be accessed in your web browser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1

Developing

To develop the project further:

git clone https://github.com/AlfHou/Vy-Lowfare.git
cd vy-lowfare/
cd Frontend
npm install
cd ../Backend
dotnet restore

This clones the repository into a folder named vy-lowfare on your computer and installs all dependencies

Features

This project is inspired by the plane company Norwegian's lowfare calendar for the flight. I wanted similar functionality for the Norwegian train company Vy's journeys.

This SPA shows:

• The lowest price for each given day in the selected month
• The backend queries Vy for the journeys to and from Oslo S and the 5 largest cities in Norway for every date 3 months into the future and stores the prices in cache every 2nd hour
• Stores all results from Vy in cache for 2 hours

This means that the first lookup for a given journey might take a couple seconds, but subsequent queries for the same journey should be much faster.

Contributing

If you want to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are very welcome and should be merged to the develop branch :)

Links

Useful links:

• Project homepage: https://github.com/AlfHou/Vy-Lowfare
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/AlfHou/Vy-Lowfare/issues

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.