Development

To prepare the app, first run yarn setup which will run yarn install in all the necessary directories and install dependencies.

After that, keys will need to be generated to use with jsonwebtoken. To generate these, first run, without specifying a passphrase:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f private.pem

This will generate two keys, private.pem and private.pem.pub. private.pem.pub is not in the expected format for jsonwebtoken so to remove it and create the correct public key, you can run:

rm private.pem.pub
openssl rsa -in private.pem -pubout -outform PEM -out public.pem
mv public.pem communicator/

After this, you can start all apps by running yarn dev. This will start two servers (one for the main app and one for the minor iframe apps), the main app and the iframe apps. Ports 3000-3002, 5000 will be taken with the main app running on port 3000.

Quality of life

To stop React from opening a browser tab for each application, you can create .env files in the directories of apps you prefer not be opened (recommended for the player app) with the following content:

BROWSER=none