implemented our own quotes DB via a json object

frontend-dev/vwss-frontend/frontend.js

@@ -127,28 +127,38 @@ function updateFontSize(elementId) {
 // Function to fetch and display a quote
 async function fetchAndDisplayQuote() {
   try {
-    const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8080/api/quotes');
+    // Update the endpoint if you created a new one
+    const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8080/api/quotes'); // or '/api/quotes/random'
 
     if (response.ok) {
-      const data = await response.json();
+      const randomQuote = await response.json();
-      const quotes = data.results;
-      const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length);
-      const randomQuote = quotes[randomIndex];
-
-      document.getElementById('quote').innerHTML = `<i>${randomQuote.content}</i>`;
-      updateFontSize('quote');
-      document.getElementById('author').innerHTML = `${randomQuote.author}`;
 
+      // Validate the received quote
+      if (randomQuote && randomQuote.quote && randomQuote.author) {
+        document.getElementById('quote').innerHTML = `<i>${randomQuote.quote}</i>`;
+        updateFontSize('quote');
+        document.getElementById('author').innerHTML = `${randomQuote.author}`;
+      } else {
+        throw new Error('Invalid quote data received');
+      }
     } else {
-      document.getElementById('quote').innerHTML = `<i>Wishing you an utmost wonderful day!</i>`;
+      console.error('Server responded with status:', response.status);
-      updateFontSize('quote');
+      displayDefaultQuote();
-      document.getElementById('author').innerHTML = `Next-Generation Cities Institute`;
     }
   } catch (error) {
     console.error('An error occurred:', error);
+    displayDefaultQuote();
   }
 }
 
+// Helper function to display a default quote
+function displayDefaultQuote() {
+  document.getElementById('quote').innerHTML = `<i>Wishing you an utmost wonderful day!</i>`;
+  updateFontSize('quote');
+  document.getElementById('author').innerHTML = `Next-Generation Cities Institute`;
+}
+
+
 // Fetch Current Weather
 async function fetchWeather() {
   const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8080/api/weather');
@@ -258,7 +268,7 @@ setInterval(function() {
 }, 600000);
 
 fetchAndDisplayQuote();
-setInterval(fetchAndDisplayQuote, 60 * 60 * 1000);
+setInterval(fetchAndDisplayQuote, 60 * 60 * 1000 * 24);
 
 fetchWeather();
 setInterval(fetchWeather, 5 * 60 * 1000);

public/index.html

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
   <title>NGCI Daily Schedule</title>
 
-  <script type="module" crossorigin src="/assets/index-CWJf9nUx.js"></script>
+  <script type="module" crossorigin src="/assets/index-HtVCQZEd.js"></script>
   <link rel="stylesheet" crossorigin href="/assets/index-Bq7sOAzP.css">
 </head>
 

quotes.json

@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+[
+  {
+    "quote": "Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place.",
+    "author": "I.M. Pei"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We don’t need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.",
+    "author": "Anne Marie Bonneau"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "By being sweet to the pedestrian and the cyclist you hit five birds with one stone – you get a lively, attractive, safe, sustainable city that’s good for health.",
+    "author": "Jan Gehl"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.",
+    "author": "Gaylord Nelson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When we destroy something created by man, we call it vandalism. When we destroy something created by nature, we call it progress.",
+    "author": "Ed Begley Jr."
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.",
+    "author": "Jane Goodall"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.",
+    "author": "Norman Foster"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Every day I wake up in Copenhagen I know the city will be a little bit better than yesterday.",
+    "author": "Jan Gehl"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The architect’s role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.",
+    "author": "Oscar Niemeyer"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backwards.",
+    "author": "Yvon Chouinard"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Consume less; share better.",
+    "author": "Hervé Kempf"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.",
+    "author": "Thomas Fuller"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works.",
+    "author": "Jan Gehl"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty.",
+    "author": "David Attenborough"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.",
+    "author": "Le Corbusier"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The Sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.",
+    "author": "Louis Kahn"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.",
+    "author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!",
+    "author": "Leonardo DiCaprio"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "An endless number of green buildings don’t make a sustainable city.",
+    "author": "Jan Gehl"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We are all crew on spaceship Earth.",
+    "author": "Marshall McLuhan"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The best way to predict the future is to design it.",
+    "author": "Buckminster Fuller"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.",
+    "author": "Patrick Geddes"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.",
+    "author": "Louis Kahn"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.",
+    "author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm. It’s about doing more good.",
+    "author": "Jochen Zeitz"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all.",
+    "author": "Ban Ki-moon"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.",
+    "author": "Robert Swan"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The future depends on what you do today.",
+    "author": "Mahatma Gandhi"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.",
+    "author": "John Portman"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Urbanization is not an evil, but it becomes a problem when it is unplanned.",
+    "author": "Sheikh Hasina"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.",
+    "author": "Frank Gehry"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.",
+    "author": "Winston Churchill"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.",
+    "author": "Albert Einstein"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Less is more.",
+    "author": "Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.",
+    "author": "Gary Snyder"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.",
+    "author": "Lady Bird Johnson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces.",
+    "author": "Paul Hawken"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.",
+    "author": "Native American Proverb"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "When we build, let us think that we build forever.",
+    "author": "John Ruskin"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.",
+    "author": "Greek Proverb"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.",
+    "author": "John Sawhill"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?",
+    "author": "Henry David Thoreau"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Sustainability is about ecology, economy, and equity.",
+    "author": "Ralph Bicknese"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The Earth is what we all have in common.",
+    "author": "Wendell Berry"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.",
+    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because they are created by everybody.",
+    "author": "Jane Jacobs"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.",
+    "author": "Stephen Gardiner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.",
+    "author": "Barry Commoner"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "Our future is at stake, and we have no option but to act decisively on climate change.",
+    "author": "Angela Merkel"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The future will either be green or not at all.",
+    "author": "Bob Brown"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.",
+    "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
+  },
+  {
+    "quote": "To waste, to destroy our natural resources will result in undermining in the days of our children.",
+    "author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
+  }
+]

server.js

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// Import necessary modules
 const express = require('express');
 const http = require('http');
 const fs = require('fs');
@@ -6,72 +7,85 @@ const path = require('path');
 const cors = require('cors');
 require('dotenv').config();
 
-
+// Import custom modules
 const msGraphHelper = require('./msGraphHelper');
 const settings = require('./settings');
 
+// Set the port
 const HTTP_PORT = process.env.HTTP_PORT || 8080;
 
+// Initialize Express app
 const app = express();
-const slideshowDir = './slideshow';
+const slideshowDir = path.join(__dirname, 'slideshow');
-
-app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
 
+// Middleware configurations
+app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
 app.use(cors({
-  origin: 'http://localhost:5173'
+  origin: 'http://localhost:5173',
 }));
 app.use(express.json());
-app.use(express.static('public'));
 
-// GRAPH API SECTION - USER AUTH
+// Initialize Microsoft Graph API for App Only Auth
-//
-// msGraphHelper.initializeGraphForUserAuth(settings, async (deviceCodeResponse) => {
-//   if (!deviceCodeResponse) {
-//     throw new Error("Device code response is undefined.");
-//   }
-//   console.log(deviceCodeResponse.message);
-// });
-//
-//  GRAPH API SECTION - APP ONLY AUTH
-//
 msGraphHelper.initializeGraphForAppOnlyAuth(settings);
+
+// Read resource UPNs once at startup
 const data = fs.readFileSync('./resourceUPNs.json', 'utf8');
 const resourceUPNs = JSON.parse(data);
 
-app.get('/api/events', async (req, res) => {
+// Cache quotes to avoid reading the file on every request
+let quotesCache = [];
+const quotesFilePath = path.join(__dirname, 'quotes.json');
+fs.readFile(quotesFilePath, 'utf8', (err, data) => {
+  if (err) {
+    console.error('Error reading quotes:', err.message);
+  } else {
+    try {
+      const parsedData = JSON.parse(data);
+      if (Array.isArray(parsedData) && parsedData.length > 0) {
+        quotesCache = parsedData;
+        console.log('Quotes loaded into cache.');
+      } else {
+        console.error('Quotes file is empty or malformed.');
+      }
+    } catch (parseError) {
+      console.error('Error parsing quotes:', parseError.message);
+    }
+  }
+});
 
+// API endpoint to get events
+app.get('/api/events', async (req, res) => {
   try {
-    let now = new Date();
+    const now = new Date();
-    let startDateTime = new Date(now);
+    const startDateTime = new Date(now);
-    // startDateTime.setHours(8, 0, 0, 0);
+    const endDateTime = new Date(now);
-    let endDateTime = new Date(now);
     endDateTime.setHours(20, 0, 0, 0);
 
     if (startDateTime > endDateTime) {
-      // Exit early since there are no relevant events to display
+      // No relevant events to display
       return res.json({});
     }
 
-    let events = {};
+    const events = {};
     for (const resource of resourceUPNs) {
       try {
-        const data =
+        const data = await msGraphHelper.getCalendarView(
-          await msGraphHelper.getCalendarView(resource, startDateTime.toISOString(), endDateTime.toISOString());
+          resource,
-        // fs.readFileSync(`./events/${resource}.json`, 'utf8');
+          startDateTime.toISOString(),
-        const resourceEvents = data;
+          endDateTime.toISOString()
-        events[resource] = resourceEvents;
+        );
-        // console.log(`${new Date()}: Grabbed events for ${resource}`);
+        events[resource] = data;
       } catch (error) {
-        console.error(error);
+        console.error(`Error fetching events for ${resource}:`, error);
       }
     }
     res.json(events);
   } catch (err) {
     res.status(500).json({ message: err.message });
   }
-
 });
 
+// API endpoint to get weather information
 app.get('/api/weather', async (req, res) => {
   try {
     const lat = 45.49;
@@ -85,47 +99,52 @@ app.get('/api/weather', async (req, res) => {
       const json = await response.json();
       res.json(json);
     } else {
-      res.status(500).json({ message: 'Error in /weather' });
+      res.status(500).json({ message: 'Error fetching weather data' });
     }
   } catch (err) {
     res.status(500).json({ message: err.message });
   }
 });
 
-app.get('/api/quotes', async (req, res) => {
+// API endpoint to get a random quote
+app.get('/api/quotes', (req, res) => {
   try {
-    const url = `https://api.quotable.io/quotes?limit=150&tags=urban|city|technology|future`
+    if (quotesCache.length === 0) {
-    const response = await fetch(url);
+      return res.status(500).json({ message: 'No quotes available' });
-
-    if (response.ok) {
-      const json = await response.json();
-      res.json(json);
-    } else {
-      res.status(500).json({ message: 'Error in /quotes' });
     }
+
+    const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotesCache.length);
+    const randomQuote = quotesCache[randomIndex];
+
+    res.json(randomQuote); // Send only one quote
   } catch (err) {
-    res.status(500).json({ message: err.message });
+    res.status(500).json({ message: 'Error retrieving quote' });
   }
 });
 
+// Serve slideshow images
 app.use('/slideshow', express.static(slideshowDir));
+
+// API endpoint to get slideshow images
 app.get('/api/slideshow', (req, res) => {
   fs.readdir(slideshowDir, (err, files) => {
     if (err) {
-      console.error('Failed to list slideshow images: ', err.message);
+      console.error('Failed to list slideshow images:', err.message);
       res.status(500).json({ message: err.message });
       return;
-    } else {
-      const imagePaths = files
-        .filter(file => /\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$/i.test(file))
-        .map(file => `/slideshow/${file}`);
-
-      res.json(imagePaths);
     }
+
+    const imagePaths = files
+      .filter(file => /\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$/i.test(file))
+      .map(file => `/slideshow/${file}`);
+
+    res.json(imagePaths);
   });
 });
 
-
+// Create and start the HTTP server
 const httpServer = http.createServer(app);
 
-httpServer.listen(HTTP_PORT, () => console.log(`HTTP Server listening on http://localhost:${HTTP_PORT}`));
+httpServer.listen(HTTP_PORT, () => {
+  console.log(`HTTP Server listening on http://localhost:${HTTP_PORT}`);
+});