Tracking Beverage Tax Revenue and Spending

The code behind the interactive dashboard for Philadelphia's soda tax revenue and spending.

Check out the interactive visualization here.

Tools

The application is built using a combination of open-source tools, including vue, vuetify, and ApexCharts.

Development

There are two commands serve, which will launch a local development server, and build, which will build the final javascript bundle for the application in the dist/ folder.

We also need to specify the mode for the build, which can be either staging or production. This will determine if the data is pulled from the "staging" or "production" version of the data files. This allows us to update the "staging" dataset for the new release, without affecting the page that is live on the production website.

Project setup

Install the dependencies:

yarn install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

Load data from the staging database:

make serve mode=MODE

where MODE is either staging or production.

Compiles and minifies for production

Load data from the staging database:

make build mode=MODE

where MODE is either staging or production.