tilez | js application serving vector tiles in GeoJSON or TopoJSON

To prepare the package description (package.json), compose the properties file and install Node.js dependencies: mvn compile -Ddeployment={deployment type} -Dsystem={developmet system}. To set up the VTS server: A database named "vts" has to be created on the CouchDB server. To install CouchDB views and list functions (including a call to initialize the views): mvn compile -DinstallViews=true -Ddeployment={deployment type} -Dsystem={system}.
To test the integration between the client and the server, you may use clients built with different mapping frameworks (OpenLayers 2, Leaflet and OpenLayers3). The only full-featured client is the OL2 one, while the Leaflet one lacks the ability to choose different layers and the OL3 one shows only tiled data (in time, all clients should have the same capabilitis). To test, just load the index.html page in your browser: file:///+path_to_vts_/vector-tile-server/client/ol2/index.html file:///+path_to_vts_/vector-tile-server/client/leaflet/index.html file:///+path_to_vts_/vector-tile-server/client/ol3/index.html ...and start zooming and panning around.
Check that version to install is on GitHub;
Prepare the combined properties file for the target system: mvn compile -Ddeployment={deployment type} -Dsystem={target system},{target db server}
Copy the combined properties file from the development machine to the target system under ${AURIN_DIR}
Create, if not existing, a "vts" database on CouchDB on the db server
Create views and other functions on the db2 server mvn compile -DinstallViews=true -Ddeployment={deployment type} -Dsystem={target system},{target db server}
Open an SSH session on the target system
Install vts of the required version (see package.json) in your home directory in the server npm install git+ssh://git@github.com/AURIN/vts.git@<version of vts>
Stop the service: sudo service aurin-api-vts stop
Rename the old version's directory (if existing) on the target system to datastore.old
Move the vector-tile-server directory (under node_modules) to the relevant position on the target system (usually /opt).
Start the service: sudo service aurin-api-vts start
Test it: curl -k -X GET "https://dev-api.aurin.org.au/vts/layers" should return a JSON array with defined layers.