Starting anew, before I changed to a custom chart

server/src/main.ts

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+import dotenv from "dotenv";
+import express from "express";
+import {newMainRouter} from "./mainRouter";
+import {setupCollections} from "./Collections";
+import path from "path";
+import {startSensorPinger} from "./pingSensors";
+
+dotenv.config();
+const SERVER_ROOT = process.env.SERVER_ROOT ?? "/";
+
+async function main() {
+    try {
+        const collections = await setupCollections();
+        const mainRouter = newMainRouter(collections);
+        const app = express();
+        app.use(express.json());
+        app.set("port", process.env.PORT || 3000);
+        app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false}));
+        app.locals = {
+            rootUrl: SERVER_ROOT,
+        };
+        app.set("view-engine", "ejs");
+        app.set("views", path.resolve(__dirname + "/../static"));
+        app.use(SERVER_ROOT + "/static", express.static(path.resolve(__dirname + "/../static")));
+        app.use(SERVER_ROOT, mainRouter);
+        app.listen(app.get("port"), () => {
+            console.log("ClayPI running on http://localhost:%d", app.get("port"));
+        });
+        startSensorPinger();
+    } catch (e) {
+        throw new Error(`Problem setting up the server: ${e.message}`);
+    }
+}
+
+main();
+