Quant-UX - Prototype, Test and Learn

Quant UX is a research, usability and prototyping tool to quickly test your designs and get data driven insights. This repo contains the front end. You can find a working demo at https://quant-ux.com/#/

Develpment setup

npm install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

npm run serve

Compiles and minifies for production

npm run build

Run your unit tests

npm run test:unit

Lints and fixes files

npm run lint

Installation

The easiest way to get your own installation up and running is using the prebuild Docker images by Brian McGonagill. You can find the repo and instructions at https://github.com/bmcgonag/quant-ux-docker/

Manual Installation

Quant-UX has two components. A front-end (this package) and a backend (qux-java). The front-end needs Node.js (> 12) installed. The backend needs a Mongo DB, a Mail Server (SMPT) and Java (> 1.8). The front-end comes with it's own mini web server, which also include a proxy that redirects all request to the correct backend.

Docker

The easiest qway to get your own Quant-UX installation running is using the Docker images.

1. Create a docker compose file (docker-compose.yaml) and set the environment variables.

version: '3'

services:
  mongo:
    restart: always
    container_name: quant-ux-mongo
    image: mongo
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data/db        # pth for the data to be stored and kept on your host machine is on the left side of the ":"
  qux-fe:
    restart: always
    container_name: quant-ux-frontend
    image: klausenschaefersinho/quant-ux
    environment:
      - QUX_PROXY_URL=http://quant-ux-backend:8080        # this is the path the front end uses to talk tot he backend
      - QUX_AUTH=qux
      - QUX_KEYCLOAK_REALM=
      - QUX_KEYCLOAK_CLIENT=
      - QUX_KEYCLOAK_URL=
      - QUX_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:8086        # change to where the websocket server is deployed for external access
    links:
      - mongo
      - qux-be
    ports:
      - 8082:8082        # change the left side port if your host machine already has 8082 in use
    depends_on:
      - qux-be
  qux-be:
    restart: always
    container_name: quant-ux-backend
    image: klausenschaefersinho/quant-ux-backend
    volumes:
      - ./quant-ux-data:/app-data
    environment:
      - QUX_HTTP_HOST=http://quant-ux-frontend:8082   # this is the URL included in the mails, e.g. password resets
      - QUX_HTTP_PORT=8080  # This is the port the backend will use
      - QUX_MONGO_DB_NAME=quantux  # the database / collection name in mongodb
      - QUX_MONGO_TABLE_PREFIX=quantux  # table / document prefix in mongodb
      - QUX_MONGO_CONNECTION_STRING=mongodb://quant-ux-mongo:27017 # this assumes your mongodb container will be called "quant-ux-mongo" in the docker-compose file
      - [email protected]        # this should be your smtp email user
      - QUX_MAIL_PASSWORD=sTr0ngPa55w0Rd        # this should be your smtp email password
      - QUX_MAIL_HOST=mail.example.com        # this should be your smtp host address
      - QUX_JWT_PASSWORD=some-long-string-of-mix-case-chars-and-nums        # you should change this to a real JWT secret
      - QUX_IMAGE_FOLDER_USER=/app-data/qux-images        # this folder should mapped in the volume
      - QUX_IMAGE_FOLDER_APPS=/app-data/qux-image-apps        # this folder should mapped in the volume
      - TZ=America/Chicago        # change to your timezone
      - QUX_AUTH_SERVICE=qux
      - QUX_KEYCLOAK_SERVER= # just the keycloak host & port
      - QUX_KEYCLOAK_REALM=
      - QUX_USER_ALLOW_SIGNUP=true # set the false to not allow users to signup
      - QUX_USER_ALLOWED_DOMAINS=* # comma separated list of domains, e.g. 'my-server.com' or '*' for all
    depends_on:
      - mongo
  qux-ws:
    restart: always
    container_name: quant-ux-websocket-server
    image: klausenschaefersinho/quant-ux-websocket
    environment:
      - QUX_SERVER=http://quant-ux-backend:8080/
      - QUX_SERVER_PORT=8086
    ports:
      - 8086:8086
    links:
      - qux-be
    depends_on:
      - qux-be

Make sure to update QUX_JWT_PASSWORD the ENV variable to make sure your instalation is secure. Update QUX_HTTP_HOST, QUX_MAIL_USER, QUX_MAIL_PASSWORD and QUX_MAIL_HOST to sure correct mail handling

2. Start the containers with the following command

docker compose up

Kubernets

You can find a kubernets configuration here https://github.com/engmsilva/quant-ux-k8s/tree/master/k8s

Backend

• Install Mongo DB (> 4.4)

• Install Java (1.8)

• Checkout the backend

git clone https://github.com/KlausSchaefers/qux-java.git

• This contains already a compiled version of the backend in the release folder

• Edit the matc.conf file to setup the correct mongo and mails server details. More details can be found here: https://github.com/KlausSchaefers/qux-java

• Start the server, or install as a service in Linux.

java -jar release/matc.jar -Xmx2g -conf matc.conf -instances 1

Front-end

• Install Node.js (> 12)

• Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/KlausSchaefers/quant-ux.git

• Install all dependecies:

npm install

• Build

npm run build

Config front-end

• Set the proxy server url as en ENV variable

export QUX_PROXY_URL=https://your.quant-ux.server.com // backend host

export QUX_WS_URL= wss.quant-ux.server.com // web socket server

• Start

node server/start.js

Reverse Proxy

Now you should have a a running system. It is not secure yet. The best is to put both behind a NGINX reverse proxy, which handles SSL.

• https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/tutorials/nginx-reverse-proxy/

You can use https://letsencrypt.org/ to create SSL certificates