talk/INSTALL.md

BUILDING FROM SOURCE

By contributing to this project you agree to the Code of Conduct.

Requirements

• Node
• Mongo
• Redis

Operating System

• We recommend hosting Talk with any flavor of Linux
• 1GB memory (minimum)
• 5GB storage (minimum)

Initial Setup

Get the code

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/coralproject/talk

Installation

• cd talk
• npm install

Environmental Variables

This project is using many environmental variables for configuration. You can learn about them in the README's file.

Local development

npm start

It will run in http://localhost:$PORT

Testing

Run all tests once via:

npm test

npm run e2e

Troubleshooting

Can't ping the redis server!

• Check that Redis Server is running.
• Check that TALK_REDIS_URL is set.