Monujo

a wallet app for your local currency. Monujo works on your mobile and on the web to let you connect to your digital account and spend and receive money in your local complementary currency.

Monujo use an administrative backend (odoo is available thanks to lokavaluto-addons), and one or more financial backends (cyclos and comchain are available) to provide end-users with a simple interface for their daily use of their local complementary currency accounts.

Monujo supports:

• Lookup recipient of payment thanks to the community user directory
• Send money to any member
• Top up your account with credit cards
• Bio-metric authentication on your device when available
• Export transaction list on a given time range
• ... more to come ...

You'll find here additional information for local complementary currency community managers, and developers.

What you'll find here

As an end user, your local community should provide you with all the resource you need on their own website. If you don't know what you are doing, you should probably be better off these pages and should probably refer to your local complementary community resources pages.

As a local complementary currency community manager, you'll find here both the mobile app resources to provide to your community and the code to deploy on your web server.

As a developer, you'll find here enough technical information to get you going to come give us a hand for the development of Monujo.

Install

Requirements

On the mobile side, Monujo is compatible with:

• iPhone 6s or SE or later
• Android 5.1 or later

On the browser side for the web deployment version, Monujo should be compatible with most modern web browsers.

Download

In the release page, you'll find all packages required for the mobile deployment (currently only android packages are provided):

Download the latest package

Along with the .tar.bz2 archive file to deploy to your web server.

Developer Information

Monujo is a Vuejs 3 application and use capacitor to make mobile compatible app. It is written in Typescript.

Requirements

Monujo uses browserlist to produce web-app compatible with most browsers (see our targets).

On the mobile side, capacitor builds packages compatible with:

• iPhone 6s or SE or later (>= iOS 13)
• Android 5.1 or later (SDK >= 22)

To build the packages from these current sources, you'll need:

• for iOS: Xcode 15.4 or better (requires Sonoma)
• for Android: android SDK 22+ (requires Java 17+)

Web-app

The following will give you instructions for getting ready to test and code on the web-app version.

Project setup

npm install

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

npm run serve

You'll need to provide a public/config.json along the live assets. Yon can find an example in public/config.example.json.

Compiles and minifies for production (web or mobile)

Code is transpiled from typescript to compatible javascript by webpack.

npm run build

This will create dist folder with all files needed for the app. You'll need to provide a config.json along with the release file. Note that if you provided a public/config.json file prior to running the build command, you'll end up having a copy in dist/config.json along your release file.

You can find an example of a valid config file in public/config.example.json.

Lints and fixes files

We use both ESLint and prettierx to ensure a solid consistent style and some coding guidelines.

To check (and correct when possible) coding guidelines:

npm run lint

To format the code according with prettierx:

npx prettierx -w src/

Mobile app

In order to be able to build the mobile app, you will need to follow these instructions first:

capacitor environment setup instructions

And download all dependencies:

npm install

This will install cap and cordova-res which we will use in the next steps. Please note that these commands all accept the platform (ios or android) as first argument, and will ask for it if it can't apply to all platform at once.

Build core files

This will compile and produce the final javascript and css files in dist/ from the typescript files in src/ and assets of the public/.

npm run build

Note: if you had a public/config.json file setup for development, it'll be copied to dist/config.json automatically.

Generating splash screens and icons

Put your icon and splash files in resources/icon.png and resources/splash.png respectively (see the files for minimum sizes) and then run:

npx cordova-res --skip-config --copy

Theme customization

You can customize the app's theme by setting properties in the dist/config.json file (see the src/assets/custom-variables.scss for a reference of what you can customize).

See the public/config.example.json for a complete example of customizing your theme in the main config file.

Prepare app for build

This will copy the assets from dist/ folder into the android and iOS directories and make sure the platforms have all their needed dependencies

npx cap sync

Run in simulator or physical device

The following command will prompt you to choose from a list of installed simulators or your physical device(s) if connected via USB cable and properly set up.

npx cap run

Using full platform specific user interfaces

If you have installed the required studios (graphical user interface), you can open it through:

npx cap open

From there you can sign package, upload to store, etc... the way you would do it for any mobile app.

Tests

End-to-End tests with cypress

Setup

For most tests, you might want to provide some important environment variables:

In a local file cypress.env.json (in the root of the project), you can add:

{
  "email":"[email protected]",
  "password":"pass"
}

These are the credentials that will be used to login in the end-to-end tests. You might want to double check your config.json and more specifically your lokapiHost value, as it is toward this odoo server that these credentials will be used.

Note that you can also provide credentials also this way:

CYPRESS_email="[email protected]" CYPRESS_password="pass" npx cypress run
## or
npx cypress run --env email="[email protected]",password="pass"

Running tests

To run end-to-end tests on the content of the dist/ code (it needs to have been created prior to running this, through npm run build):

npx cypress run

You may rather want to run the tests directly on the development server provided by npm run serve. You'll then need to provide a baseUrl configuration.

CYPRESS_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080 npx cypress run
## or
npx cypress run --config baseUrl=http://localhost:8080

Any test output (reports, screenshots and videos) will be created under the folder .cypress/.

Note that it is also possible to run and to create new tests in GUI mode, the following command will open a browser window and run the tests:

npx cypress open

To add a new E2E test, create a new file in the tests/e2e/<FILENAME>.cy.ts folder and write your test cases, for more information on how to write E2E tests with Cypress, you can check out the Cypress documentation

Screenshots

End-to-end tests from cypress can be used to generate screenshots intended to publication to stores. You can do that with the following call:

npx cypress run \
    --config viewportWidth=375,viewportHeight=667,defaultCommandTimeout=20000 \
    --env screenshot=true \
    --spec tests/e2e/spec.cy.ts

This will run the tests and if everything went well, should produce the screenshots in the directory .cypress/screenshots/spec.cy.ts/.

To provide a scale factor, you must add an environment variable scaleFactor (which default is 1), and force the browser to be chrome, for instance:

npx cypress run \
    --config viewportWidth=375,viewportHeight=667,defaultCommandTimeout=20000 \
    --env screenshot=true,scaleFactor=2 \
    --spec tests/e2e/spec.cy.ts \
    --browser chrome

Translation

By default, the current files are set up to maintain a french translation but the translation itself is not stored in the repository.

In the following section you'll get to learn how to add or maintain a translation for Monujo.

Preparing for translation in a new language

Monujo uses gettext standard. You can create (and maintain) ready-for-translation PO files with:

npm run gettext:extract

It parses the full code for any strings (and changes to strings) and produces (or updates), these files:

src/i18n/LINGUA
src/i18n/message.pot
src/i18n/fr-FR/app.po

You can configure the exact set of PO language files (here fr-FR/app.po) to prepare/update in gettext.config.js in the output.locales value. Many languages can be maintained at the same time.

For more information about this configuration file, you may want to have a look at vue3-gettext documentation of it, and the defaults we provide in the current code.

Edit the PO file with the actual translation

The previous extraction will have made changes to each app.po, you must then either fill the missing translation, review the "fuzzy" entries. And finally save your file.

Many dedicated PO editors exists for easing the process of translating apps. POEdit is cross platform and up to the task, or you might have a look at other softwares advertised in gettext manual.

Emacs PO Editor mode

With Emacs PO Editor mode, the ufo cycle to review a PO file:

• Check all untranslated entries with u/U (next/previous untranslated entry, knowing that it'll cycle once it reach the bottom/top, so you can just use u until it tells you it can't find any more untranslated entries).

  These are new strings for which no translation was yet provided.

  • On an untranslated entry, just use ENTER key. Edit the translation, then accept with C-c C-c.

• Check all fuzzy entries with f/F (next/previous fuzzy entry, knowing that it'll cycle once it reach the bottom/top, so you can just use f until it tells you it can't find any more fuzzy entries),

  These are entries whose message id have been modified and should be reviewed for probable adaptation.

  • correct if necessary with ENTER key as specified for untranslated entries.
  • unfuzzy the entries once you've reviewed it and/or finished editing it with <TAB> key.

• Check all obsolete entries with o/O (next/previous obsolete entry, knowing that it'll cycle once it reach the bottom/top, so you can just use o until it tells you it can't find any more obsolete entries),

  These are entries that are not used anymore. You should usually delete them.

  • Use <BACKSPACE> to delete the entry.

Once you've finished the ufo cycle, the PO file is ready !

Integrating a translated PO to Monujo

Once the PO file is ready (all the new entries were translated and all the modified entries were unfuzzied), you need to produce a json file so Monujo can read it. This is done with:

npm run gettext:compile

This will produce files in public/i18n/fr-FR.json (using the default gettext.config.json provided with the source code).

You then need to tell Monujo (or make sure it is already done), that this language translation is available: you can force a language, provide a default or give the choice to the user among any number of languages in the config.json (you may want to look at the config.sample.json, in the locales value).

Each language (except the one listed as appStringsLanguage require it's url field to be set to the corresponding translation file (the json file). Note that these translation files can be served along with the current Monujo deployment, or from any other location.

Build release assets

To build the final assets (signed packages for mobiles and for the web app) and optionally create a github release (if you have the appropriate rights), fastlane is used.

First, you need ruby on your system (note that you might require also ruby-dev package on debian related system).

For that you'll need to install some dependencies:

bundle install            ## to install all ruby dependencies
pip install gitchangelog  ## to generate CHANGELOG information from git log

General usage

These following commands will create a release as long as your current commit is tagged with a valid tag identifier (following X.Y.Z(-rc.R) syntax).

bundle exec fastlane web build      ## Build web deployment package
bundle exec fastlane android build  ## Build android APK and AAB
bundle exec fastlane ios build      ## Build ios IPA

Will produce build outputs in release/$TAG directory.

Specifying which version to build

If the checkout of your current code is on a commit that has a TAG of the form X.Y.Z (optionally with -rc.R postfixed, as 1.0.0-rc.9 or 2.1.0 for instance) it'll be automatically used as the version name.

You can force the build of another tag by adding a tag:1.0.0-rc.9 argument on the command line.

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane android build tag:1.0.0-rc.9

build changelog for current version

bundle exec fastlane changelog

Will create a file release/<TAG>/CHANGELOG with the changes since last version.

create screenshots for release by specifying resolution

These screenshots will showcase the most important part of the app. These are intended for publication along the releases in app stores to illustrate the app features.

If you use the screenshot action fastlane, screenshots will be built. If you do so, you probably want to configure some important aspect of this tour through several options:

• the real odoo screenshot server to connect to:
  • command line argument host, or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_HOST
  • configuration file .screenshot.json, field host.
  • if not specified, it will use the value provided in the config.json as lokapiHost.
• the database to connect to on the screenshot host:
  • command line argument db, or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_DB
  • configuration file .screenshot.json, field db.
  • if not specified, it will leave the value provided in the config.json as lokapiDb.
• the login/email to log into the given screenshot host:
  • command line argument login, or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_LOGIN, or
  • configuration file .screenshot.json, field login.
  • the file cypress.env.json in the key email
  • if not specified, the command will fail with an explanatory message.
• the password to log into the given screenshot host:
  • command line argument password, or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_PASSWORD
  • configuration file .screenshot.json, field password.
  • the file cypress.env.json in the key password
  • if not specified, the command will fail with an explanatory message.
• the language to shoot the screenshots in:
  • command line argument language, comma separated if needed or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_LANGUAGE, comma separated if needed or
  • configuration file .screenshot.json, field languages as an array.
  • if not specified, every key of declared languages in config.json in locales.availableLanguages will be used to create screenshots for all languages.
• the resolution to shoot the screenshots in:
  • command line argument resolution, comma separated if needed or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_RESOLUTION, comma separated if needed or
  • configuration file .screenshot.json, field resolutions as an array.
  • if not specified, every key of declared languages in config.json in locales.availableLanguages will be used to create screenshots for all languages.

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane screenshot \
    tag:1.0.0-rc.11 app:agnel,pive \
    host:demo.lokavaluto.fr \
    db:odoo \
    login:[email protected] \
    password:demo \
    language:fr-FR,en-US \
    resolution:375x667x3,1080x810

Results will be outputted along the built files in release/$TAG/screenshots/$APP/$LANG/$RESOLUTION. Notice that if the directory exists already, it won't try to build screenshots. You must provide a force:true option to force the deletion of the directory and replacement with a new one.

The quickest way to build/complete all snapshots of the app would be to setup your .screenshot.json and then run:

bundle exec fastlane screenshot

Note that screenshot resolution can specify a scaling factor as third number. For instance, 393x852x3 is a valid resolution with 3 as scaling factor.

create and publish screenshots for release by specifying device

This is supported on both the Google Play Store and the Apple Store.

For the push to be supported on ios platform, it requires a Apple host to run the script.

All arguments of previous section applies. With the addition of:

• the device name to target for the screenshots in:
  • command line argument device, comma separated if needed of one or more of the following for ios platform: IPHONE_55, IPHONE_65, IPHONE_67, IPAD_PRO_129, IPAD_PRO_3GEN_129, of for android platform: phone, sevenInch, tenInch... or
  • environment variable SCREENSHOT_DEVICE, comma separated if needed or
  • if not specified, the minimum required list of device needed to make a valid release for the store will be chosen. (which is currenty: IPHONE_55, IPHONE_65, IPHONE_67, IPAD_PRO_129, IPAD_PRO_3GEN_129 for ios, and phone, sevenInch, tenInch for android)

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane ios publish_screenshots \
    tag:1.0.0-rc.11 app:agnel,pive \
    host:demo.lokavaluto.fr \
    db:odoo \
    login:[email protected] \
    password:demo \
    language:fr-FR,en-US \
    device:IPHONE_55,IPAD_PRO_129

Or if you have correctly setup files, and want to target all apps in all languages on all required devices for the current tag:

bundle exec fastlane ios publish_screenshots

Build is happening in a temporary directory

You don't need to clean your directory or care about the state of your current work dir: the source will be cloned in a temporary directory prior to any package building.

Platforms supported

This will be the first argument after your bundle exec fastlane ... command.

Current infrastructure can drive the builds for:

web

This is a simple html/js/css web server archive ready for deployment and should be buildable in all environment.

iOS

It is required to use a mac. We are using fastlane code signing guidelines and tools.

You need to have your Apple certificates and keys ready. The nice default setup is to create a directory 'keys/ios/', having:

• keys/ios/api_key.json: Your App Store Connect API keys JSON file as documented in fastlane docs.

• keys/ios/match_password the match password that encrypts your certificates

You can change these paths, or even provide these information without using files, you'll get direction for this if you don't provide the previous file.

Then, it'll download certificates from our github private certificate repository (you'll need access to that set up). And will need to decrypt these with our certificate password (you'll need this also), it should ask for this password only the first time you need it and will try to keep it in your machine's key-chain (it might ask you to create a password for this).

Finally, provided that you have the correct dependencies ready... it will produce the IPA file that needs to be shipped to the App Store to make a release. Please note that fastlane can do this for you also, please have a look at the release section.

Note that you can provide a revision number for the released ios package by adding an argument to the command line as rev:N (that will be 0 by default).

android

You need to have your Android signing keys ready. The nice default setup is to create a directory 'keys/android/', having:

• keys/android/keystore the binary keystore
• keys/android/keystore-password the password to the keystore

You can change these paths, or even provide these information without using files, you'll get direction for this if you don't provide the previous files.

Then, provided that you have the correct dependencies ready... it will produce:

• APK files for direct installs on android mobile phones.
• AAB files to provide to the google playstore for deployment on it.

Note that you can provide a revision number for the released android package by adding an argument to the command line as rev:N (that will be 0 by default).

Applications

Multiple variations of the application are automatically built for the android and ios platforms depending on the content of this external resource.

You can limit your build to one or more of these by adding an app:APP1,[APP2, ...] argument to the command line. By default, if you don't specify any app argument, all apps will be built.

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane android build app:roue,pive

Publishing Release

This is about the process of send the build artifacts (web tar.bz2, IPA files for apple store, AAB files for google play store) to public platform (github release page, apple store, google play store) for distribution.

Publish to all available publishing hubs

bundle exec fastlane publish

This command will publish to all publishing hubs available for current platform artifacts. This means:

• for android plaftform:
  • build and publish APK files on github
  • build and publish AAB files to Google Play Store.
• for ios platform:
  • build and publish IPA files to Apple Store.
• for web platform:
  • build and publish tar.bz2 archive on github

Note that if not specified, the revision number will be incremented per apps, per store to allow the package to be pushed.

You can use all options from publish_store (see next section)

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane android publish \
    tag:1.0.0-rc.14 \
    app:monujo,monujo-test \
    rev:1

.. will build APK and AABs, publish APK on github and push AAB to Google Play Store. It will build them for tag 1.0.0-rc.14, and both apps monujo and monujo-test with the revision number 1.

Publish to github

In this section, it'll be about publishing the build assets on the github release page.

bundle exec fastlane web publish_github
bundle exec fastlane android publish_github
bundle exec fastlane ios publish_github

Will build packages in release/$TAG and create/update github release provided that you have the credentials for this.

To setup your credentials, you'll be required to setup the GITHUB_API_TOKEN environment variable with an api token that you'll create in your github account.

You can change the default github repository on which the release are created/updated by adding a github_repository:OWNER/REPOS command line argument.

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane android publish_github \
    tag:1.0.0-rc.8 github_repository:vaab/monujo \
    app:monujo rev:1

.. will build android packages (APK and AAB) from source code of tag 1.0.0-rc.8 with the added revision 1 in the android version code, only for application "monujo" and create/update the github release 1.0.0-rc.8 of the github repository "vaab/monujo".

Note that you'll need to add changelog:true to force creation of changelog and use it to create the description of the release with the changelog.

Publish to Apple Store

The following will only work on a MacOSX system.

bundle exec fastlane ios publish_store

Will build packages in release/$TAG and create/send the release provided that you have the credentials for this. The result should be available in testflight.

Note that if not specified, the revision number will be incremented to allow the package to be pushed.

Please refer to the ios build section to provide any options that you'd like. If IPA was already built, it'll be used.

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane ios publish_store \
    tag:1.0.0-rc.11 \
    app:monujo rev:1

.. will build iOS packages (IPA) from source code of tag 1.0.0-rc.11 with the added revision 1 in the iOS version code, only for the application "monujo" and send this release to testflight.

Publish to Google Play Store

bundle exec fastlane android publish_store

Will build packages in release/$TAG and create/send the release provided that you have the credentials for this. The result should be available in the internal track on our Google Developer Console.

Note that if not specified, the revision number will be incremented to allow the package to be pushed.

Please refer to the android build section to provide any options that you'd like. If AAB was already built, it'll take the existing file and send it directly to the store.

For instance:

bundle exec fastlane android publish_store \
    tag:1.0.0-rc.11 \
    app:monujo rev:1

.. will build android packages (AAB) from source code of tag 1.0.0-rc.11 with the added revision 1 in the android version code, only for the application "monujo" and send this release to Google Play store in the internal test track, in draft mode.