Tilo

Provides an interactive visualisation of the biological Tree of Life.

Files

• package.json: Contains project information, including package dependencies.
• src: Contains most of the client-side code.
• index.html: Holds code for the main page, into which code from 'src' will be included.
• backend: Contains code for the server, and generating tree-of-life data
• vite.config.js: For configuring Vite.
• tailwind.config.js: For configuring Tailwind.
• postcss.config.js: For configuring Tailwind.
• tsconfig.json: For configuring Typescript.
• .gitignore: Lists files to be ignored by Git.
• public: Contains files to be copied unchanged when building for production.

Overview

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Setup Instructions

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During development, a client request to the server on the same machine would be blocked due to the Same Origin Policy. This is avoided by adding an 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *' header to server responses. This should be disabled during production.