SynchroCivics - Synchro Civics sample app

This app is intended to be installed into a Synchro Server environment using the Synchro Command Line Interface tool.

Synchro Civics uses the Google Civic Information API to power a Synchro mobile app that shows the representatives at every level of government based on street address.

Installing Synchro Civics

To install in your Synchro Server environment using the Synchro CLI:

$ synchro install https://github.com/SynchroLabs/SynchroCivics/archive/master.zip

Alternatively, you may use Git to install this app and keep it up to date. To do that, you will want to clone SynchroCivics (this repo) into the synchro-apps directory in your Synchro installation, then install Synchro Civics into your configuration using the Synchro CLI:

$ synchro add SynchroCivics synchro-civics

Configuring Synchro Civics

Before running Synchro Server with this app, you must provide the app configuration setting GOOGLE_CIVICS_KEY. This value must represent a Google API key that has been enabled for use with the Civic API.

The easiest way to set this value is to add it to the Synchro Server config.json file after installing the Synchro Civics app into your local configuration (as described in the previous section):

{
  "APPS": {
    ... other apps ...
    "civics": {
      "container": "civics",
      "GOOGLE_CIVICS_KEY": ">>>PUT YOUR KEY HERE<<<"
    }
  }
}

Updating Synchro Civics

If you installed this app using synchro install, then you may update it (getting the most recent version) at any time by doing:

$ synchro install -u synchro-civics

Of course if you installed by cloning the repo, then you will use Git to update as appropriate.