Talkilla

Video call exploration

Local Development

1. Talkilla currently requires Firefox >= 25.

2. Make sure you have node installed.

3. Install the required node dependencies:

    $ npm install
    # or alternatively:
    $ make install

4. Start the server:

    $ make runserver
    # or alternatively:
    $ env NODE_ENV=development PORT=5000 SESSION_SECRET=unguessable node app.js

5. In Firefox, set media.navigator.permission.disabled to true

6. Point your web browser to http://localhost:5000.

Configuration

App configuration is done using JSON files stored in the config/ directory:

• dev.json for the dev environment configuration
• prod.json for the prod environment configuration
• local.json for any settings you may want to override locally (this file is never versionned)

Optional settings are:

• DEBUG: to have log messages printed out to the browser console
• ROOTURL: the url to the server (this can also be specified by PUBLIC_URL in the environment)

Testing

Talkilla has a comprehensive test suite. See the docs/tests.md file for more detail.

Debugging

There are various ways to debug Talkilla, see the docs/debugging.md file for more detail.

Contribution

Look for a file named CONTRIBUTING.md in this repository. It contains our contributing guidelines.

Frequently Asked Questions

You can find a list of frequently asked questions in the docs/faq.md file.

License

All source code here is available under the MPL 2.0 license, unless otherwise indicated.