Instructions for setting up a local dev environment for Simple Data Pipe

Introduction
As a developer working on Bluemix applications, it is very important that you are able to edit, run and debug your code locally, so that you can be as productive as possible.
This page provides documentation on how to configure the simple data pipe project for local development. It is assumed to the reader is familiar with development of nodejs-based projects and associated tools (npm, node, bower, etc...). Therefore, we'll focus the discussion on the configuration specific to running Simple Data Pipes locally.

Pre-requisites
The first step is to deploy the pipes application on Bluemix. Please follow the tutorial here Simple Data Pipe Tutorial. The next step is to clone and prep the project on your local environment:

git clone https://github.com/ibm-cds-labs/pipes.git
then install all the node and bower dependencies:
npm install

If all goes well, you are now ready to go to the next step which is to configure your local environment to work with Bluemix.

Run the project locally as if it was running on Bluemix
Simple Data Pipes requires to be bound to 3 service instances:

1. Cloudant NoSQL
2. DataWorks
3. DashDB
   The application will bind to the services at runtime and call various apis with the url endpoints registered in the VCAP_SERVICES.