Coffee Chats 2.0

Zulip bot that pairs Recursers for coffee chats

Commands and Documentation

For a full list of commands see the wiki page

Signing up

Just say hi directly to @chat-bot.

Installing

With Docker

Before you get started, make sure you have docker on your local machine and have the daemon running. You can do a docker info to check if you're connected to the daemon.

docker build -t coffee . // builds the image
// you can do `docker images` to check that the coffee image is there

docker run -p 8080:8081 coffee // runs the image second port num is the internal port

Previous Way (without Docker)

Before you get started, make sure you have:

• a recent version of Node (10.x)
• some version of SQLite3
• Python 2.7 (any recent version)

The better-sqlite3 npm package requires Python 2 as a dependency. Python 3 will throw a syntax error. Things get even more complicated on Windows. Just make sure you can run Python 2.7 from the CLI.

The basic installation is what you'd expect: npm install.

After all of the npm packages have been installed, you'll want to create a .env file, probably by copying the example file

cp .env.example .env

You can configure it as you wish, but the default values should just work. The default database is data/development.db which is already configured in the .env file. To create it (since we're avoiding checking it in through our .gitignore), you just need to touch the file:

touch data/development.db

Once you've installed all the packages, copied the local environment file, and created the development database, you can run the tests to verify everything works:

npm test

and then start the server

npm run dev

Happy hacking!