Simple Typescript Clock

A simple, maybe not so simple clock replacement for the office of ACM@UIC.

Features

• Time and Date
• CTA Bus and Train Arrival Times
• Weather from DarkSky
• QR Codes for ACM and LUG Discords

Building and deployment

This project is built and deployed with the Nix package manager. The NPM application can be built as follows:

nix build .#

This will produce a symlink called "result" in your local directory. The program can be run as follows:

./result/bin/simple-ts-clock

Usage

1. Clone the repository.
2. Navigate to the repository directory.
3. Create a .env file based on .env.example.
4. Optionally modify the values (not the keys) of src/qrCodeUrls.ts to point to up-to-date URLs for the Discord and the repository for this project, if they've changed. Please commit those changes.
5. Run npm install to install dependencies. (See CONTRIBUTING.md for detail about how to install dependencies when changing the set of dependencies.)
6. Run npm run dev.

How to use

1. Run npm run start to start the npm server or npm run watch to watch for changes.
2. Navigate the browser to locahost:8080 or the port specified in the .env config.

Offline Mode

Offline mode will disable api requests to the server leaving only the clock running. It can be activated by going to /offline path.

Demo Mode

Demo mode works like offline mode but displays demo information instead of real data from apis. It can be activated by going to /demo path.

Configuration

To override the default config, you can use the URL GET parameters or by pressing c to open the config options.

Deployment

To deploy to ACM's clock machine, simply run

./deploy

This repo is set to poll and auto upgrade the ACM clock machine every day automatically from the contents of this repo.

To deploy outside ACM, first use agenix to encrypt an env file containing the secrets (based on .env.example) replace the current enc.env file. You can encrypt your file to the SSH host key of the target machine. The enc.env file in the repo will decrypt on ACM's clock machine.

Then, edit the system configuration at nix/system.nix to your liking and deploy:

nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#acmclock --build-host root@yourmachine --target-host root@yourmachine

Make sure to change system.autoUpgrade to point to your repo, or disable it.

Authors

This project was originally a rewrite of sudoclock by clee231.

The project has since been rewritten mostly in the simple-js-clock repo by bmiddha and other contributors.

In January 2023, the simple-js-clock repo was forked to continue development here.

In February 2025, @SohamG and @clee231 updated the app to Node 20 and added the Nix-based build and deployment.