tijuana-sunrise

This Repo Contains:

• TextFlow.us marketing site
• TextFlow beta webapp
• TextFlow alpha Slack integration
• TextFlow Android WebView container with interface to access SMS and Contacts DB.

Installation and Deployment on a new server

The following assumes that the domain is textflow.us and that you're installing on a modern Debian-compatible flavor of Linux

Installing Dependencies

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/samrahimi/textflow-alpha.git && cd textflow-alpha
• Install NPM dependencies:

sudo npm install

• Install MongoDB 3.4 or higher or sign up for a hosted instance. Create an empty database (the example below assumes the DB name is textflow)
• Create an instance of Watson Tone Analyzer service on Bluemix and save the credentials.
• Create a .env file and set the port, MongoDB connection string and Watson credentials to match your setup. If you want to use SSL, set PORT=80 and app will run on http:80 and https:443

PORT=80 
DB=mongodb://localhost:27017/textflow
WATSON_PASSWORD='Password for your tone analyzer service'
WATSON_USER = 'Username for your tone analyzer service'

Generate your SSL Certificates (production only)

NOTE: this app is configured to use CERTBOT on Debian 8 and assumes certificate location and type based on that. If you wish to use a different SSL provider or server OS, edit /bin/www to load the appropriate certificate

sudo apt-get install certbot -t jessie-backports
sudo certbot certonly

The CertBot UI will ask you some questions: enter your domain name where you're hosting and accept default settings for everything else

Start The App (Testing / Development)

sudo npm start

Running As A Service (Production)

If you want the site to stay up when you disconnect from the server, you need to run it as a service. Assuming you're on Debian 8, you can edit the service definition in /service/test.service file and update the file locations and username as follows:

1. Create a user with root privileges (e.g. node_service). This account should not be used by humans for security reasons!
2. nano ./service/test.service and update paths, working directory, etc.
3. sudo cp ./service/test.service /etc/systemd/system
4. sudo systemctl start test
5. check by going to textflow.us in your browser or use: sudo journalctl -u test

Updating On The Remote Server

NOTE: Assumes a working installation as described above)

1. SSH into remote.
2. Stop the service: sudo systemctl stop test
3. git pull
4. Start the service sudo systemctl start test

API Documentation (DEPRECATED)

TODO!