akhilcacharya / polite.li

Interrupt your dev friends..polite.li!

Polite.li

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Prototype built for macOS.

More can be found here: https://kaveenherath.github.io/polite.li/

Setting up the App

Building from Source

• Do NPM install on /app and /backend
• Get the configuration details, add to config.json
• Run backend with node app.js
• Run frontend with npm start

Using Release

• Visit the GitHub Project's releases section.
• Download the latest release, and whitelist in macOS to open from unidentified developer..
• Get the configuration details, add to config.json
• Run backend with node app.js
• Start Polite.li.app

Dependencies

App

• Electron: Used to build a MacOS application that can be distributed as a .app

• React.js: Used to build user interfaces for the application

• Photonkit: CSS toolkit used to bring near-native design to the app

Backend

• Node.js: Used for backend service
• MongoDB: Used for persistence through the Mongoose library