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Daheim is a German non-profit NGO with the mission of teaching language and culture for free to refugees arriving to Germany. We connect German native volunteers with people that would like to learn over an online video platform.

Getting Started

Prerequisites:

• node greater than 6.0.0
• npm greater than 3.0
• docker running and controllable with docker-compose

Install dependencies:

npm install

Copy .env.example file to .env in the follwing directories:

• packages/daheim-app-api
• packages/daheim-app-live
• packages/daheim-app-ui

Run local development version:

npm run dev

Daheim App Monorepo

This repository contains the web application that connects the users through WebRTC. It contains different modules that are organized into microservices. The different modules are wired together by Lerna.

Original module sources were:

• https://github.com/daheim/daheim-app-ui
• https://github.com/daheim/daheim-app-api

Internationalization

The main target language of the platform is German. Although, to make international collaboration easier, code is written in English and messages translated from English to German. Our choice of internationalization is library is react-intl. Translations are maintained in an open Crowdin project.

Administrative Tasks

Manage Translations

To run these scripts, a CROWDIN_KEY environment variable must specify a valid API key for the Crowdin project.

Upload messages to translate:

npm run crowdin-upload

Build and package translations:

npm run crowdin-build

Download updated translations:

npm run crowdin-download

Deploy Latest Version

The application is hosted in a Kubernetes cluster. This scripts need a fully setup kubectl.

Deploy all components to latest Docker tag and watch the deployment rolling out:

bin/devops --latest-api --latest-ui --latest-live --watch