Flight Tracker

The Flight Tracker App provides the user a way of following currently flying airplanes, as well as different way of searching for a particular flight.

Prerequisites

• A Lufthansa API key must be registered
• A Mapbox access token must be registered
• Make a .env.prod file at the root of the project with the following environment variables.

  LUFTHANSA_API_KEY=<your_api_key>
  OPENSKY_BASE_URL=https://opensky-network.org/api/states/all
  MAPBOX_API_TOKEN=<your_mapbox_access_token>
  DATA_PATH=.\data
  BASE_URL_CFI=https://api.lufthansa.com/v1/operations/customerflightinformation/
  BASE_URL_SCHEDULES=https://api.lufthansa.com/v1/flight-schedules/flightschedules/passenger?
  DATA_DIR=/home/data
  LOG_DIR=/home/log
  DASH_LOG=dash.log
  CRON_LOG=cron.log

Setup

Docker must be installed and running on your platform.

Run the Docker Compose file with:

docker compose up

Getting Started

The App has a few functionalities such as :

• Display infos when clicking on an airplane on the map
• Search a flight
• Search route infos
• Search airport for departures and arrival

In the Search bar, the airport fields must be IATA codes

TODOs

• Suggest flights when typing in the search panel

Web Interface

Overview

Click on airplane

Hover on airplane

Route

Departures and Arrivals

Trace of a Flight