Darkrai Server

The server component for the Darkrai browser extension.

You can find the repository for the extension here.

Darkrai is a browser extension which enables you to chat with anybody visiting the same website 🤩

Development

Darkrai uses a docker container configuration for both development (using vscode) and production. Hence we recommend you install docker. Learn more here.

Environment file

You need to setup a .env file in the root of the repository. The file should look like this:

DB_URL=#Your database url here
DB_NAME=#Your database name here
NODE_ENV=#Your node environment mode (development or production)
SERVER_SECRET=#A random string

Docker

• To develop in docker with vscode you need to have the Remote-Containers extension installed.
• After installing the extension open the command palette and select the "Open folder in Container" option which will open your folder in the docker container.
• Once the image is built and your vscode window is open in the container, open a terminal (in vscode) and run yarn dev and you are good to go.

Regular

You need the following dependencies installed on your machine:

• NodeJS
• Yarn

Run the following commands in the cloned repository:

# To install node dependencies
yarn
# To run the dev server
yarn dev

Production

For production, we highly recommend using docker, however if you want to run the server without docker than you will need to install the dependencies mentioned in this section and then just run yarn start in the repo folder.

For docker users:

• First, build the image:

  docker build -t darkrai .

• Run the image while mapping the port to the host machine:

  docker run -p 4848 darkrai