Tiledesk / Tiledesk Server
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Introduction
Tiledesk-server is the server engine of Tiledesk. Tiledesk is an Open Source Live Chat platform with integrated ChatBot written in NodeJs and Express. Build your own customer support with a multi-channel platform for Web, Android and iOS. More info here https://www.tiledesk.com.
You can find more info here: https://developer.tiledesk.com
Prerequisites
Running Tiledesk Server
Run locally with npm
Steps to run with npm:
npm install -g @tiledesk/tiledesk-server mongodb-runner
mongodb-runner start
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tiledesk/tiledesk-server/master/.env.sample --output .env
nano .env #configure .env file properly
tiledesk-server
If you want to load .env file from another path: DOTENV_PATH=/MY/ABSOLUTE/PATH/.env tiledesk-server
Note: If installation with -g fails due to permission problems (npm ERR! code 'EACCES'), please refer to this link.
Using Docker
Configure .env file
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Tiledesk/tiledesk-server/master/.env.sample --output .env
nano .env #configure .env file properly
Running
If you want to run tiledesk and mongo with docker run :
docker run --name tiledesk-mongo -d mongo
docker run -p 3000:3000 --env DATABASE_URI="mongodb://mongo/tiledesk-server" --env-file .env --link tiledesk-mongo:mongo tiledesk/tiledesk-server
Otherwise if you want to run tiledesk only with docker run :
docker run -p 3000:3000 --env DATABASE_URI="mongodb://YOUR_MONGO_INSTALLATION_ENDPOINT/tiledesk-server" --env-file .env tiledesk/tiledesk-server
Install from source code
- Clone this repo
- Install dependencies with
npm install
- Configure the tiledesk .env file. You can see an example in the file .env.sample under the root folder. Rename it from .env.sample to .env and configure it properly.
- Run the app with the command
npm start
or withnodemon
if you want monitoring and auto reload. Install nodemon withnpm install -g nodemon
Deploy on Heroku
Deploy with button:
REST API
See the Tiledesk REST API here
Upgrading
To see how to upgrade tiledesk-server see here
Testing
Run unit test with npm test
and integration test with npm run test:int