Sample of web frontend to imodel backend opening snapshot

[MattPil29]

Hi,

I'm looking for sample or at least some guidance/code snippets to pull together the following:

1. standard react web front end (covered here) with the code to connect to our own node.js backend - how do we do this without an app id etc which all the samples promote?
2. quick sample of spinning up a node.js backend to read a asnapshot/local BIM file. I see the agent turoial here but again it needs ids and not file names.

I'm assuming somewhere in the agent sample I'd need to swap in some code to use https://www.itwinjs.org/reference/core-backend/imodels/snapshotdb/#openfile

Thanks in advance for any help given, regards, Matt

[hl662]

Hi Matt, see this sample I spun up for opening a node backend to read a BIM file. You can run 'pnpm i', and then 'pnpm start' (I used pnpm for my package manager, but npm should be okay too?)

As for your first point, can I have a clearer idea of what you are trying to do? A node backend that opens imodels locally, and your frontend app can interact with it?