word-projector

Display song words on-screen for live events, like church services.

It is a web-based app that provides presenter and presentation views for displaying the words.

It is currently fairly specific to a particular schema for hymn and song words.

Install

With Node.js installed,

npm i -g ts-node
npm install
npm run build

Populating song words

The file data/songs.json needs to be created and populated with the song words. A sample file is present in songs.sample.json.

The hymns-text-parser.ts script reads in .docx files and outputs JSON that can be piped to data/songs.json. The corresponding file songs.sample.docx can be used as an example.

Use the songs in songs.sample.json

cp songs.sample.json data/songs.json

Use the songs in songs.sample.docx

ts-node hymn-text-parser.ts songs.sample.docx > data/songs.json

Populate with your own data/songs.docx file

ts-node hymn-text-parser.ts data/songs.docx > data/songs.json

Populate with all .docx files in data/files/Hymns

ts-node hymn-text-parser.ts 'data/files/Hymns/*.docx' > data/songs.json

Populate with all .docx files in data/files/Hymns.zip

ts-node hymn-text-parser.ts 'data/files/Hymns.zip' > data/songs.json

Specify CCLI license (optional)

cp ccli.sample.json data/ccli.json

Change the 0 to your license number. Must be a JSON number value.

Running word-projector

1. In the root directory (with this README), start the server:

   npm start

   e.g.

   > word-projector@1.0.0 start C:\Users\Joshd\word-projector
   > ts-node server.ts
   
   Listening on http://192.168.8.35:8080
   

2. In a browser, navigate to http://localhost:8080/

Developer guide

word-projector uses webpack for asset bundlinng. Front-end code needs to be built from the TypeScript sources. Use npm run build to build it or npm run build -- --watch to build as you make changes to the sources.