Tak ratings display

This webserver shows the ratings of all players. One can also see how all the games one has played affect one's rating.

Requirements to run the service locally

• Install node.js
• Run npm install to install the required node modules
• Run node server.js

Setting up the service

• Web Server
  • npm install pm2 --global to keep the web server running
  • pm2 start ecosystem.config.js (read more about pm2 ecosystem files)
    • pm2 save
    • Run pm2 startup and follow the output to make sure your service starts after a machine reboot
  • ufw allow 8080 or whatever port you'd like to expose it through
    • If you chose a port that was not 8080 and haven't changed the server.js you need to forward the port server.js uses to the one you exposed, in this case, 80:

      iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
      

      Since this shall persist restarts, add it to /etc/network/interfaces as described here
• Setting up the cronjob to download the latest database and ratings
  • apt install jq to parse the json file for updating
  • crontab -e and add:

    # Update at 17:10 UTC every day. If your machine is not UTC, change accordingly.
    # It might be the best to change your machine's timezone to UTC.
    10 17 * * * cd ~/takrating && ./update.sh
    

    • To set the timezone to UTC use e.g. timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London (and reboot)