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Heisse Preise
A terrible grocery price search "app". Fetches data from big Austrian grocery chains daily and lets you search them. See https://heisse-preise.io.
You can also get the raw data. The raw data is returned as a JSON array of items. An item has the following fields:
store: eitherbillaorspar.name: the product name.price: the current price in €.priceHistory: an array of{ date: "yyyy-mm-dd", price: number }objects, sorted in descending order of date.unit: unit the product is sold at. May be undefined.
To run this terrible project locally, you'll need to install Docker.
The project consists of a trivial NodeJS Express server responsible for fetching the product data, massaging it, and serving it to the front end (see index.js). The front end is a least-effort vanilla HTML/JS search form (see sources in site/).
For development, run docker/control.sh startdev. You can connect to both the NodeJS server and the client for debugging in Visual Studio code via the client-server launch configuration (found in .vscode/launch.json).
For production, run docker/control.sh start.
Self-contained executable
If you just want to run an instance of this app without Docker, run package.sh in a Bash shell, with NodeJS installed. It will generate a folder dist/ with executable for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Run the executable for your OS. On first start, it will fetch the initial data. Once loaded, you can open http://localhost:3000 to use the app. Subsequent starts will fetch the data in the background, so the web app is available instantaniously.