Use CrinGraph as main

You can host modernGraphTool and CrinGraph together with slight change of code!

This chapter showcases how to dual-host 2 graphtools in 1 domain, using CrinGraph as main forefront page.

Overview

There are several ways to host two services on a single domain.

Here, we showcase the classic “folder as subdomain” approach, which is simple and effective for static sites or web apps.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Prepare Your Projects

• modernGraphTool: Set up the modernGraphTool database and files as described in the other documentation chapters.
• CrinGraph: Prepare the CrinGraph project files. You can use any variant of CrinGraphs.

2. Organize Your Directory Structure

Your root folder should contain the main index.html for CrinGraph.

Create a new folder (e.g., mGT) inside the root directory, and place all modernGraphTool files there.

The mGT folder should also have its own index.html.

Tip

CrinGraph was originally designed to contain measurement and target data in the same data folder. But, we’re going to separate these into a dedicated folder for each of them to make it easier to maintain.

Example structure:

/project-root/
├── data
|   ├── phones          # 'phone' measurements folder
|   |   ├── A8 L.txt      # measurement data
|   |   └── A8 R.txt      # measurement data
|   ├── target          # 'target' measurements folder
|   |   └── Target.txt    # target data
|   └── phone_book.json # List of phones
├── index.html          # CrinGraph entry point
├── ...other CrinGraph files...
└── mGT
    ├── index.html      # modernGraphTool entry point
    └── ...other modernGraphTool files...

3. Required Changes to CrinGraph

Since we are separating measurement and target data into a dedicated folder, we have to modify graphtool.js to properly fetch data from new directories.

The following examples are based on the squiglink/labs version of CrinGraph.

Tip

Even if you are using a different version of CrinGraph, you should be able to follow the examples below without any problems. However, there may be slight differences in details such as line positions.

graphtool.js

Head over to line 787, and edit loadFiles function.

// Previous
let l = (f) => d3.text(DIR + f + '.txt').catch(() => null);
let f = p.isTarget
  ? [l(p.fileName)]
  : d3.merge(LR.map((s) => sampnums.map((n) => l(p.fileName + ' ' + s + n))));

// After
// If you're using custom directory for measurements, change the 'phones' and 'target' words to yours.
let l = (f) => d3.text(DIR + 'phones/' + f + '.txt').catch(() => null);
let lt = (f) => d3.text(DIR + 'target/' + f + '.txt').catch(() => null);
let f = p.isTarget
  ? [lt(p.fileName)]
  : d3.merge(LR.map((s) => sampnums.map((n) => l(p.fileName + ' ' + s + n))));

4. Required Changes to modernGraphTool

Since we don’t want to manage 2 data folders for each graphtool respectively, We need to update mGT’s config.js file to correctly fetch data from parent directory.

config.js

Head over to line 62, and edit PATH object.

// Previous
PATH: {
  PHONE_MEASUREMENT: "./data/phones",
  TARGET_MEASUREMENT: "./data/target",
  PHONE_BOOK: "./data/phone_book.json",
},

// After
// If you're using custom directory for measurements, change the 'phones' and 'target' words to yours.
PATH: {
  PHONE_MEASUREMENT: "../data/phones",
  TARGET_MEASUREMENT: "../data/target",
  PHONE_BOOK: "../data/phone_book.json",
},

Notice that the single dot has been replaced with two dots, indicating mGT to look for a parent directory.

5. Add Navigation Buttons to Each Tool

After finishing the code-weaving job above, you should be able to access 2 graphtools via these domains.

• To access CrinGraph: https://yourdomain.com/
• To access modernGraphTool: https://yourdomain.com/mGT/ (Folder name as subdomain)

We can add little buttons so users can easily navigate between these two.

CrinGraph

Head over to line 250 of config.js for headerLinks array, and add these line:

headerLinks = [
  {
    name: 'Go to modernGraphTool',
    url: 'https://yourdomain.com/mGT'
  },
  // or
  {
    name: 'Go to modernGraphTool',
    url: './mGT'
  }
];

modernGraphTool

Head over to line 114 of config.js for TOPBAR object, and add these line:

TOPBAR: {
  LINK_LIST: { TITLE: "Go back to CrinGraph", URL: "https://yourdomain.com/" },
  // or
  LINK_LIST: { TITLE: "Go back to CrinGraph", URL: "../" },
}

6. Deploying

Upload your project to your web server, ensuring the folder structure is preserved.

Both tools should now be accessible as described above.

Tip

If you are applying these changes to your squig.link database, the changes might not be shown immediately due to cached files.

You can apply these changes immediately by refreshing the cache. Add ?cachebust to the end of your database address, then reload the page.

e.g) https://example.squig.link/?cachebust