Introduction

This code forms part of the backend for the 'orthography-app' application. Data is to be stored in a MongoDB instance, and storage of media files will occur in an AWS S3 bucket.

Notice: this is a PoC, and thus everything is subject to change! Also, functionality is limited!

How to setup the ortography-app backend

Prerequisites:

• You need to have an S3 bucket available. Keep note the name of this bucket.
• You need a user with access to this S3 bucket. This user needs to have API keys. Keep note of the Access Key and the Secret Access Key.

Installation

Using Docker

Using Docker compose is the easiest method. The provided compose template already starts a MongoDB server together with the OrthoApp backend application.

Make a copy of the provided compose-template.yaml file

cp compose-template.yaml compose.yaml

Within the file compose.yaml, change all the strings that are <bracketed> into actual values.

Start the container stack

docker compose up -d

Running manually

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/unfoldingWord/orthography-app.git

Inside the repo, install the dependencies

cd ortography-app
npm install

Run the application

npm start

Configuration

1. Add a baselanguage to the system. Currently, only English is supported.

curl -d '{"name":"English", "code":"en"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' http://localhost:5000/api/language/add

Take note of the generated _id, that looks like 663b4d663937e0dd156aaef4

2. Outside of your backend directory, clone the image upload app (which is currently on a feature branch)

mkdir ortho-upload && cd ortho-upload
git clone -b upload-script git@github.com:unfoldingWord/orthography-app.git

3. Open the script uploadImagesScript and modify

• the apiUrl. Probably, you only need to change the port into 5000.
• the languageId. This should be the value that you took from step 1)

4. Create a directory images and fill it with the images that need to be uploaded

mkdir images
cp /path/to/original-images/* images/

5. Install nodejs, if that is not installed yet

apt install nodejs

6. Run the import script

node uploadImagesScript.js