HelpingHandsVR / pineapple

Track times and manage your attendance to Helping Hands events

Pineapple

Track times and manage your attendance to Helping Hands events

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What is this?

Pineapple is the combination of a backend and frontend project build specifically for the Helping Hands VR community. It allows users to keep track of their time spent learning Sign Language, as well as it houses a number of convenience features, like automatic invites and linking of a Discord account.

Getting started

This is a guide for developers. If you need help using Pineapple, refer to the help menu inside the app, or ask a staff member in our Discord server.

This is a description on how you can set this project up locally on your machine. You will need Git, the latest LTS version of NodeJS, Yarn, Docker and docker-compose installed.

Preparation

You will need an IDE or text editor that supports the Editorconfig standard. A lot of IDEs support it out of the box, and there are plugins for a bunch more. Find your editor here and install the plugin if necessary.

If you're using VS Code, you can open the project very easily by choosing File > Open Workspace and opening the pineapple.code-workspace file inside the cloned repo.

If you're on Windows, you will need the windows-build-tools package (npm i -g windows-build-tools in an administrator PowerShell window). The -g switch is important, as it's not a project scoped package. It takes a while to install, please be patient.

Running the project

0. Clone the repository | git clone https://github.com/HelpingHandsVR/pineapple && cd pineapple
1. Install dependencies | yarn --frozen-lockfile && yarn lerna bootstrap
2. Copy env files from .example.env to .env in both packages
   • cd packages/backend && cp .example.env .env && cd -
   • cd packages/frontend && cp .example.env .env && cd -

   Change the values in your new .env files as you need. Pay attention that the URL for the backend needs to match the API URL in the frontend .env file

3. For the backend, start Redis and Postgres | cd packages/backend && docker-compose up -d && cd -

   This won't start the backend, only a Redis and a Postgres container, both of which are a required dependency

4. Set up / reset the database | yarn typeorm migration:run && yarn seed
5. You should be able to start both the backend and the frontend now
   • cd packages/backend && yarn dev
   • cd packages/frontend && yarn dev