diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 86fceae7af4fb5a8de2c3c125e7f9a64c3ffbe0c..eca6c38b084168afc3ce5f1c919a8b50139fe3d7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@
 /libpeerconnection.log
 npm-debug.log
 testem.log
+makefile
+.idea/
diff --git a/app/adapters/application.js b/app/adapters/application.js
index 2b129b188845e5315c5c2dec8dcf92dd38583ec1..965c6d7cdad7e2d8119d03c8b69b74579683d02b 100644
--- a/app/adapters/application.js
+++ b/app/adapters/application.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import JSONAPIAdapter from 'ember-data/adapters/json-api';
+import ENV from 'viewer/config/environment';
 
 export default JSONAPIAdapter.extend({
-    host: 'http://localhost:8888',
+    host: ENV.APP.APIURL,
     namespace: 'api/v1'
 });
diff --git a/app/controllers/reconstruction.js b/app/controllers/reconstruction.js
index b7bf3d99cc275000425043eb2675ff8c9d0d18cf..448f6ca5f2930a011237b291219110fb0ccc0f03 100644
--- a/app/controllers/reconstruction.js
+++ b/app/controllers/reconstruction.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import Ember from 'ember';
+import ENV from 'viewer/config/environment';
 
 const { get, inject } = Ember;
 
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ export default Ember.Controller.extend({
     socketRef: null,
 
     init() {
-        const socket = get(this, 'websockets').socketFor('ws://localhost:8888/reconstruction');
+        const socket = get(this, 'websockets').socketFor(ENV.APP.websocketsURL);
 
         socket.on('open', this.openHandler, this);
         socket.on('message', this.messageHandler, this);
diff --git a/app/router.js b/app/router.js
index b1d0e174dce7c8f27402026b2055cb9927105707..931713e3527cfe27e9609bc1bac9abcf1673e351 100644
--- a/app/router.js
+++ b/app/router.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const Router = Ember.Router.extend({
 });
 
 Router.map(function() {
+  this.route('index', { path: '/' });
   this.route('reconstruction');
 });
 
diff --git a/app/templates/index.hbs b/app/templates/index.hbs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bba476cf7546bba57d504754d6c8773cd2463b67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/templates/index.hbs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<div class="clearfix mxn2">
+    <div class="col-8 px2 mx-auto">
+        <div class="white p4">
+            {{#link-to "reconstruction" class="btn white bg-silver border p4 py2"}}
+                <i class="fa fa-terminal" aria-hidden="true"></i> Reconstruction
+            {{/link-to}}
+        </div>
+    </div>
+</div>
+
+{{outlet}}
diff --git a/config/environment.js b/config/environment.js
index 2e11e4422400cddfa162487b55d5284afafd029a..32b9949cb8e44e7e2691a647431fbc77b99cd27b 100644
--- a/config/environment.js
+++ b/config/environment.js
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ module.exports = function(environment) {
     baseURL: '/',
     locationType: 'auto',
     EmberENV: {
+      EXTEND_PROTOTYPES: {
+          Date: false,
+      },
       FEATURES: {
         // Here you can enable experimental features on an ember canary build
         // e.g. 'with-controller': true
@@ -20,7 +23,10 @@ module.exports = function(environment) {
   };
 
   if (environment === 'development') {
-    ENV.APP.staticURL = 'http://localhost:8888/data/';
+    ENV.APP.websocketsURL = '';
+    ENV.APP.staticURL = '';
+    ENV.APP.APIURL = '';
+
     // ENV.APP.LOG_RESOLVER = true;
     // ENV.APP.LOG_ACTIVE_GENERATION = true;
     // ENV.APP.LOG_TRANSITIONS = true;
@@ -41,7 +47,11 @@ module.exports = function(environment) {
   }
 
   if (environment === 'production') {
-
+    ENV.APP.websocketsURL = '';
+    ENV.APP.staticURL = ';
+    ENV.APP.APIURL  = '';
+    ENV.baseURL = '/face-reconstruction/';
+    ENV.rootURL = '/face-reconstruction/';
   }
 
   return ENV;
diff --git a/ember-cli-build.js b/ember-cli-build.js
index 04c1573eda67a2b06bb483feea8e2c50fd8a6717..ddb6211b1ddfbeba2af692a8da51502b3ae2dbca 100644
--- a/ember-cli-build.js
+++ b/ember-cli-build.js
@@ -4,21 +4,31 @@ var EmberApp = require('ember-cli/lib/broccoli/ember-app');
 
 module.exports = function(defaults) {
   var app = new EmberApp(defaults, {
-    // Add options here
+    sourcemaps: { enabled: true, extensions: ['js']},
+    minifyJS: {
+        enabled: false
+    },
+    minifyCSS: {
+        enabled: false
+    },
+    fingerprint: {
+        enabled: true
+    }
   });
 
-  // bower compoenents
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/align/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/border/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/flexbox/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/grid/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/hide/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/layout/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/margin/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/padding/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/position/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/type-scale/index.css');
-  app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/typography/index.css');
+  // bower components
+  // TODO: fix loading bascss locally instead of including it in the index.html.
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/align/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/border/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/flexbox/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/grid/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/hide/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/layout/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/margin/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/padding/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/position/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/type-scale/index.css');
+  //app.import('bower_components/basscss/modules/typography/index.css');
 
   // npm modules
   //app.import('node_modules/basscss-responsive-margin/css/responsive-margin.css');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index be687de19a34f88d9ab35d5cd2957357af5a5cfb..bff4eabddb1513a5738d406502a033379a0dc0c7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "basscss-responsive-margin": "^1.1.0",
     "broccoli-asset-rev": "^2.4.2",
+    "dat-gui": "^0.5.0",
     "ember-ajax": "^2.0.1",
     "ember-browserify": "1.1.10",
     "ember-cli": "2.6.2",