Windshaft-CartoDB

The CARTO Maps API tiler. It extends Windshaft and exposes a web service with extra functionality:

• Instantiate Anonymous Maps through CARTO's map configuration (MapConfig).
• Create Named Maps based on customizable templates.
• Get map previews through Static Maps API.
• Render maps with a large amount of data faster using Tile Aggregation.
• Build advanced maps with enriched data through Analyses Extension.
• Fetch tabular data from analysis nodes with Dataviews

Build

Requirements:

• Node 12.x
• PostgreSQL >= 11.0
• PostGIS >= 2.4
• CARTO Postgres Extension >= 0.24.1
• Redis >= 4
• libcairo2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libjpeg8-dev and libgif-dev for server side canvas support
• C++11 to build internal dependencies. When there's no pre-built binaries for your OS/architecture distribution.

Optional:

• Varnish
• Statsd

PostGIS setup

A template_postgis database is expected. One can be set up with

$ createdb --owner postgres --template template0 template_postgis
$ psql -d template_postgis -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis;'

Install

To fetch and build all node-based dependencies, run:

$ npm install

Run

You can inject the configuration through environment variables at run time. Check the file ./config/environments/config.js to see the ones you have available.

While the migration to the new environment based configuration, you can still use the old method of copying a config file. To enabled the one with environment variables you need to pass CARTO_WINDSHAFT_ENV_BASED_CONF=true. You can use the docker image to run it.

Old way:

$ node app.js <env>

Where <env> is the name of a configuration file under ./config/environments/.

Test

You can easily run the tests against the dependencies from the dev-env. To do so, you need to build the test docker image:

$ docker-compose build

Then you can run the tests like:

$ docker-compose run windshaft-tests

It will mount your code inside a volume. In case you want to play and run npm test or something else you can do:

$ docker-compose run --entrypoint bash windshaft-tests

So you will have a bash shell inside the test container, with the code from your host.

Coverage

$ npm run cover

Open ./coverage/lcov-report/index.html.

Docker support

We provide docker images just for testing and continuous integration purposes:

• nodejs-xenial-pg1121
• nodejs-xenial-pg101

You can find instructions to install Docker, download, and update images here.

Useful npm scripts

Run test in a docker image with a specific Node.js version:

$ DOCKER_IMAGE=<docker-image-tag> NODE_VERSION=<nodejs-version> npm run test:docker

Where:

• <docker-image-tag>: the tag of required docker image, e.g. carto/nodejs-xenial-pg1121:latest
• <nodejs-version>: the Node.js version, e.g. 10.15.1

In case you need to debug:

$ DOCKER_IMAGE=<docker-image-tag> npm run docker:bash

Documentation

You can find an overview, guides, full reference, and support in CARTO's developer center. The docs directory contains different documentation resources, from a higher level to more detailed ones.

Contributing

• The issue tracker: Github.
• We love Pull Requests from everyone, see contributing to Open Source on GitHub.
• You'll need to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) before submitting a Pull Request. Learn more here.

Developing with a custom Windshaft version

If you plan or want to use a custom / not released yet version of windshaft (or any other dependency), the best option is to use npm link. You can read more about it at npm-link: symlink a package folder.

$ cd /path/to/Windshaft
$ npm install
$ npm link
$ cd /path/to/Windshaft-cartodb
$ npm link windshaft

Versioning

We follow SemVer for versioning. For available versions, see the tags on this repository.

License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License. See the LICENSE file for details.