Fixing geolocation on production plus configuring maxmind to run loca…

…lly (#278)

* Changing docker container to run maxmind locally

* Adding files for local geolocation

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -43,9 +43,4 @@ RUN echo "\n\
     [default]\n\
     region=ca-central-1\n\
     output=json\n\
-    " >> /home/vscode/.aws/config
-
-# [Optional] If your pip requirements rarely change, uncomment this section to add them to the image.
-# COPY requirements.txt /tmp/pip-tmp/
-# RUN pip3 --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install -r /tmp/pip-tmp/requirements.txt \
-#    && rm -rf /tmp/pip-tmp
+    " >> /home/vscode/.aws/config

.devcontainer/devcontainer.json

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@
 	],
 	// Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally.
 	// "forwardPorts": [],
-	// Use 'postCreateCommand' to run commands after the container is created.
+	//use postcommand to create the maxmind db
+	'postCreateCommand': '.devcontainer/maxmind-create.sh',
 	"remoteUser": "vscode",
 	"features": {
 		"ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/aws-cli:1": {

.devcontainer/maxmind-create.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+mkdir -p /workspace/app/geodb/
+wget -O "/workspace/app/geodb/GeoLite2-City.tar.gz" "https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download?edition_id=GeoLite2-City&license_key=$MAXMIND_KEY&suffix=tar.gz"
+tar -xzvf /workspace/app/geodb/GeoLite2-City.tar.gz -C /workspace/app/geodb/
+cp /workspace/app/geodb/GeoLite2-City_*/GeoLite2-City.mmdb /workspace/app/geodb/GeoLite2-City.mmdb
+rm -fr /workspace/app/geodb/GeoLite2-City_*
+rm /workspace/app/geodb/GeoLite2-City.tar.gz

frontend/src/scenes/geolocate/index.jsx

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const geoUrl =
 // call the backend API to fetch the location data using the /geolocate endpoint
 // if we are in development we need to call the API using the full URL
 function fetchLocationData(inputValue) {
-    return fetch(process.env.REACT_APP_API_URL + '/geolocate/' + inputValue);
+    return fetch(`${window.origin}/geolocate/${inputValue}`);
 }
 
 function Geolocate() {