Quick start

Prerequisites

See the noted system requirements for Koop. For the walk-throughs below, you will need npm or yarn and git.

Using the Koop CLI

The Koop CLI provides a rapid and easy way to launch a Koop instance. To get going, install the Koop CLI:

Using npm:

npm install -g @koopjs/cli

Using yarn:

yarn global add @koopjs/cli

Once installed the koop command is available at the console. You can create a new Koop application with the name demo-app with:

# create a project folder and initialize it
koop new app demo-app
✓ created project
✓ initialized Git
✓ installed dependencies
✓ done

# cd into the folder
cd demo-app

Add at least one Koop provider that is published with NPM. Here we add the Koop Github provider Koop Github provider:

# install the provider and register it to the koop app
koop add provider @koopjs/provider-github

Now start your Koop instance:

koop serve

You should see the following console logging:

WARNING: "/MapServer" routes will be registered, but only for specialized 404 handling in FeatureServer.
[github provider] No github access token configured. Github API requests may be rate limited.
{"level":"info","message":"registered output: Geoservices 2.0.0"}
No root directory was specified, defaulting to:  /Users/rich9620/Projects/demo-app
{"level":"info","message":"registered filesystem: localfs 1.1.2"}

"Geoservices" output routes for the "datasets" provider   Methods
--------------------------------------------------------  ---------
/datasets/rest/info                                       GET, POST
/datasets/tokens/:method                                  GET, POST
/datasets/tokens/                                         GET, POST
/datasets/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer/:layer/:method  GET, POST
/datasets/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer/layers          GET, POST
/datasets/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer/:layer          GET, POST
/datasets/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer                 GET, POST
/datasets/:id/FeatureServer/:layer/:method                GET, POST
/datasets/:id/FeatureServer/layers                        GET, POST
/datasets/:id/FeatureServer/:layer                        GET, POST
/datasets/:id/FeatureServer                               GET, POST
/datasets/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer*                GET, POST
/datasets/:id/FeatureServer*                              GET, POST
/datasets/rest/services/:id/MapServer*                    GET, POST
/datasets/:id/MapServer*                                  GET, POST

"datasets" provider routes  Methods
--------------------------  ----------------
/datasets/:id               GET, PUT, DELETE
/datasets/:id/metadata      GET, PUT, DELETE

"Geoservices" output routes for the "github" provider   Methods
------------------------------------------------------  ---------
/github/rest/info                                       GET, POST
/github/tokens/:method                                  GET, POST
/github/tokens/                                         GET, POST
/github/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer/:layer/:method  GET, POST
/github/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer/layers          GET, POST
/github/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer/:layer          GET, POST
/github/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer                 GET, POST
/github/:id/FeatureServer/:layer/:method                GET, POST
/github/:id/FeatureServer/layers                        GET, POST
/github/:id/FeatureServer/:layer                        GET, POST
/github/:id/FeatureServer                               GET, POST
/github/rest/services/:id/FeatureServer*                GET, POST
/github/:id/FeatureServer*                              GET, POST
/github/rest/services/:id/MapServer*                    GET, POST
/github/:id/MapServer*                                  GET, POST

{"level":"info","message":"registered provider: github 3.0.0"}
{"level":"info","message":"Koop server listening at 8080"}

Using the Koop Sample App

The Koop Sample App is a template for generating Koop applications. To get started, clone the koop-sample-app repository on your machine.

git clone https://github.com/koopjs/koop-app-example.git

Change the working directory to the newly created koop-sample-app folder.

cd koop-sample-app

Install dependencies.

npm install

Start the server.

npm start

The Koop sample app includes the following providers:

Once Koop is running, you can test these sample requests:


Developing with Koop

If you want to develop on Koop, it’s usually best to start by creating a Provider. You can read more about that in provider docs.

You can also checkout some examples:


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