The Risk Management service allows the staff of the Lakeside Mutual insurance to download a customer data report which helps them with risk assessments periodically.
To view and edit the source code, we recommend the cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code. Other IDEs might work as well, but this application has only been tested with VS Code.
The Risk Management server is implemented in Node.js. To get started, first install Node.js and then use the Node Package Manager (http://npmjs.com/) to install the dependencies:
- Install Node.js (see https://nodejs.org for installation instructions)
- In the directory where this README is located, run
npm installto install the application's dependencies into the localnode_modulesfolder. Warnings about missing optional dependencies can safely be ignored.
Now you are ready to launch the Risk Management server.
The Risk Management server consumes Document Messages from the Policy Management backend through an ActiveMQ message queue. Therefore, you should make sure that the Policy Management backend is running while you are using the Risk Management service. Then, in the risk-management-server directory, run npm start
to start the Risk Management server.
The Policy Management backend puts a message on the ActiveMQ queue every time an insurance policy is created, updated or deleted. These messages are persisted in the file data/data.json.
If this file does not exist yet, the Risk Management server will load the default data from the file data/initial-data.json.