🔎 Discovery Demo

Use the IBM Watson Discovery service to add a cognitive search and content analytics engine to your applications to identify patterns, trends and actionable insights that drive better decision-making.

Demo: https://discovery-news-demo.ng.bluemix.net/

Prerequisites

1. Sign up for an IBM Cloud account.
2. Download the IBM Cloud CLI.
3. Create an instance of the Discovery service and get your credentials:
   • Go to the Discovery page in the IBM Cloud Catalog.
   • Log in to your IBM Cloud account.
   • Click Create.
   • Click Show to view the service credentials.
   • Copy the apikey value, or copy the username and password values if your service instance doesn't provide an apikey.
   • Copy the url value.

Configuring the application

1. In the application folder, copy the .env.example file and create a file called .env

   cp .env.example .env
   

2. Open the .env file and add the service credentials that you obtained in the previous step.

   Example .env file that configures the apikey and url for a Discovery service instance hosted in the US East region:

   DISCOVERY_IAM_APIKEY=X4rbi8vwZmKpXfowaS3GAsA7vdy17Qh7km5D6EzKLHL2
   DISCOVERY_URL=https://gateway-wdc.watsonplatform.net/discovery/api
   

   • If your service instance uses username and password credentials, add the DISCOVERY_USERNAME and DISCOVERY_PASSWORD variables to the .env file.

   Example .env file that configures the username, password, and url for a Discovery service instance hosted in the Sydney region:

   DISCOVERY_USERNAME=522be-7b41-ab44-dec3-g1eab2ha73c6
   DISCOVERY_PASSWORD=A4Z5BdGENrwu8
   DISCOVERY_URL=https://gateway-syd.watsonplatform.net/discovery/api
   

Running locally

1. Install the dependencies

   npm install
   

2. Build the application

   npm run build
   

3. Run the application

   npm start
   

4. View the application in a browser at localhost:3000

Deploying to IBM Cloud as a Cloud Foundry Application

1. Login to IBM Cloud with the IBM Cloud CLI

   ibmcloud login
   

2. Target a Cloud Foundry organization and space.

   ibmcloud target --cf
   

3. Edit the manifest.yml file. Change the name field to something unique. For example, - name: my-app-name.

4. Deploy the application

   ibmcloud app push
   

5. View the application online at the app URL, for example: https://my-app-name.mybluemix.net

Tests

Unit tests

Run unit tests with npm run test-unit, then a to run all tests. See the output for more info.

Integration tests

First you have to make sure your code is built: npm run build

Then run integration tests with: npm run test-integration-runner

Directory structure

.
├── app.js                      // express routes
├── config                      // express configuration
│   ├── error-handler.js
│   ├── express.js
│   └── security.js
├── package.json
├── public                      // static resources
├── server.js                   // entry point
├── test                        // integration tests
└── src                         // react client
    ├── __test__                // unit tests
    └── index.js                // app entry point

License

This sample code is licensed under the MIT License.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

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