Gov Data Dashboard | Typescript

This repository is a basis for the technical deep dive interview and not actively updated. Please note that the code intentionally includes problems.

GovData.de is the data portal for Germany. The federal, state and local governments can share their data. Although the "Open Data Act" makes it obligatory to share data, only about 135,000 data sets are online so far.

This repository contains a small web application that provides a dashboard showing how many data sets each federal ministry has made available on GovData. The goal of the dashboard is to show which ministries have provided the most data. States, municipalities and other institutions are ignored.

Implementation

The GovData's CKAN Action API (documentation) was used to retrieve the data. The file departments.json lists all federal ministries and their subordinated agencies that have published data on GovData.

Requirements

• Node v18 (may work on older versions, but has not been tested)

Install all dependencies

npm install

How to run

You can run the application on http://localhost:8080.

npm start

Development

If you want to use a watcher during development, you can use:

 npm run watch:start

How to test

• Execute npm test
• A watcher is available via npm run watch:test

Linting, Formatting

• Run npm run lint to run check for linting

• Run npm run lint:fix to fix linting errors (where possible)

• Run npm run prettier:check to check formatting

• Run npm run prettier:write to fix formatting (where possible).