ExUssdSimulator

The development UI for ExUssd

Installation

Add the :ex_ussd_simulator package to your deps list in mix.exs:

defp deps do
  ...
  {:ex_ussd_simulator, "~> 0.1.0", only: :dev}
  ...
end

You need to set the callback_url of the simulator to your ExUssd endpoint:

config :ex_ussd_simulator,
  callback_url: "http://localhost:4000/api/callback",
  # Optional: Set the serviceCode with which the simulator will call your endpoint.
  # Defaults to: *123#
  service_code: "*456#"

Start your phoenix server with mix phx.server. Now you can visit localhost:5123 from your browser.

Why doesn't the simulator run at localhost:4000?

We wanted to separate the ExUssdSimulator dependencies from your project dependencies as much as possible. Your project potentially runs a "headless" phoenix endpoint, that is without Phoenix Views or templates or Phoenix LiveView. That is, API endpoints only.

The ExUssdSimulator however, depends on Phoenix LiveView, which also needs to be configured. We did not want you to configure LiveView only to use the simulator, which is why we start a separate endpoint for the simulator in the :dev-environment only.

Development

To start your Phoenix server:

• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Install Node.js dependencies with npm install inside the assets directory
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:5123 from your browser.

Important

Please run mix assets.compile and push the changes in priv/static/ before making any PRs. This ensures that we always keep the production versions of app.css and app.js in the library and not the larger development versions.