CXServer

ContentTranslation is a tool that allows editors to translate pages from one language to another with the help of machine translation and other translation tools.

This is the server component of ContentTranslation.

Installation

Install the dependencies:

$ npm install

Running the server

npm start

Then browse to http://localhost:8080/v2

Configuration

An default configuration file is given as config.dev.yaml. Copy it to config.yaml to customize. Restart server to read changes.

To know more about registry configuration, see doc/Registry.md

Developing and Debugging

npm run dev

This will run the application in hot reload mode. It means, your code changes will be immediately reflected in the running server.

This will also enable nodejs debugging in port 9229. To debug in Chrome dev tools, launch chrome://inspect/ in Chrome browser. You will see a remote target listed there, corresponding to cxserver.

If you are using an IDE like VS Code, it can connect to this debugging port and you can debug directly from your IDE. From 'Debug' menu, select 'attach'. Note that your launch configuration should look like as follows. The remoteRoot is important

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "attach",
            "name": "Attach",
            "port": 9229,
            "localRoot": "${workspaceRoot}/",
            "remoteRoot": "/usr/src/app/"
        },
        {
            "type": "node",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Program",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/app.js"
        }
    ]
}

Developing using Docker

If you are familiar with Docker, this application can be developed easily using docker. From the cxserver directory, run this command once to install dependencies

docker-compose run cxserver npm install

Then

docker-compose up

This will start the cxserver in port 4000 (configurable by editing docker-compose.yaml) and you can launch the browser to localhost:4000/v2. This will also include hot reloading of your source code changes and opening up the debugger port as explained above.

Testing

To run the tests:

npm test