This document will describe how to get the project running. I would recommend a *nix machine (ubuntu/mac) for all development purposes and my instructions will cater to them. In brief you would be

• Installing the meteor tool if you do not have it
• Installing the node module dependencies
• Running Beam microservice
• Setting up a licode instance (optional)
• Filling the development settings in settings-development.json
• Running the App! 🙏

Fork the repo. If you aren't used to forking model this page is a good start. Now clone the repository to continue.

/app contains the meteor app. The application strucure of the project in /app is similar to one described in these docs. All the code stays in this directory. All the commands to run the project etc. are to be executed in this directory.

/build output directory for the built application. Its contents are ignored in git.

/chrome-extension is the unpacked chrome extension used for screen sharing.

/docs contains documentation.

• $ cd app
• install the meteor tool
• install the node dependencies $ meteor npm install
• Now in order to configure the environment settings for the application a file called settings-development.json is needed. A sample file called settings-example.json is provided. simply copy it's contents into a new file named settings-development.json in the same directory.
• Try running the app. meteor npm start This should start the development server at localhost:3000.

You must have docker installed.

1. Pull the image $ docker pull akshaykmr/licode-oorja:0.2.1

Note: This image is not modified from the official licode images which can be found here The only difference is that this image is built with a licode version tested with oorja, so licode-oorja:0.1.X image works with oorja release 0.1.X and so on.

2. Start licode with the following command in the terminal

MIN_PORT=30000; MAX_PORT=30050; docker run --name licode -p 3010:3000 -p $MIN_PORT-$MAX_PORT:$MIN_PORT-$MAX_PORT/udp -p 3015:3001 -p 8080:8080 -e "MIN_PORT=$MIN_PORT" -e "MAX_PORT=$MAX_PORT" -e "PUBLIC_IP=127.0.0.1" licode-oorja:0.1

This will start a licode instance and map necessary ports on your local machine. Once licode starts look out for two logs in the console output:

[licode] SuperService ID 59577ce54c59534e64cb345c 
[licode] SuperService KEY 20067

Your ID and Key will obviously be different.

3. Now keep this running in a terminal tab and plug these values in settings-development.json in Nuve configuration. Like so

    ...
    "Nuve": {
      "serviceName": "local",
      "serviceId": "59577ce54c59534e64cb345c",
      "serviceKey": "20067",
      "host": "http://127.0.0.1:3010/"
    },
    ...

If you have any comments in your settings-development.json remove them as it's not valid JSON.

Please refer to the instructions in its github repo At the end you should have the microservice running at port 5000.

• With all settings in place the app should be able to run 🙏 $ meteor npm start Go to localhost:3000 and create a new Room!

Don't worry if some error comes in the above steps, reach out to me and I'll try my best to update the docs accordingly.

• To simulate joining the with another user use a incognito window to open the same room link. Since the session is not shared you can test 2 users interacting locally 👍
• Advanced users may want to setup licode on a VPS so that you can test the app on different devices and other use cases.

More details on settings-development.json

More information on licode architecture

• I would recommend you use visual studio code with the following extensions
  • babel es6/es7
  • color highlight
  • eslint
  • npm intellisense
  • path autocomplete
  • sass
  • scss intellisense
  • stylelint
  • sublime babel

eslint plugin is vital. Without it your build won't pass so ensure that it works properly.

shows a linting error in vscode

For running the lint test manually: meteor npm run lint

That's it. Up next, Make a tab!