Wikonnect

Wikonnect is an open-source e-learning platform that is designed to allow anyone to learn, create content, and contribute to the code. The initial courses offered on the platform will be around digital literacy, to get more people using the internet in more productive ways. Developed by Tunapanda Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. The original platform (called 'swag') was used to provide technology, design, and business training in low-income communities with low bandwidth.

Getting Started

The front-end is developed using Ember.js. We recommend getting started with Ember by going through the tutorials.

The back-end is developed using Node.js.

Prerequisites

In order to get Wikonnect running locally:

Ensure that Ember-cli and Node.js are installed. You will also need Yarn (Ubuntu Installation), and knex.

Set up PostgreSQL

Ubuntu installation

OSX installation

Windows installation

You should create a postgresql user (with password), and set up database. (Don't forget to grant privileges to your user on the database!)

=# CREATE USER my_user WITH PASSWORD 'my_password';
=# CREATE DATABASE my_database;
=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE my_database TO my_user;

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/tunapanda/wikonnect.git

Install the node packages in the main project directory...

cd wikonnect/
yarn

Now let's set up the server. First, go into the server directory and install the node packages.

cd server/
yarn

Then, rename the file server/config/db.example.js to server/config/db.js, then edit the credentials that will provide access to your development datbase. (Do not use the development database in a production environment)

development: {
    host: 'localhost',
    database: 'my_database',
    user: 'my_user',
    password: 'my_password',
  },

Next, you will want to set up your database and start your server.

Running knex migrate:latest in the server/ directory will use the migration files in server/migrations to create and format the tables so that they will work with wikonnect.

To populate the database with dummy data (defined in server/db/seeds), run knex seed:run.

Now start your server! yarn start.

If you see an Elasticsearch error, don't worry, you don't need Elasticsearch to run the app.

Get Ember up and running

Install the node packages for the Ember app. Run yarn in wikonnect/frontend.

Now start your server!

yarn start.

Now point your favorite browser to http://localhost:4200/ and you will be able to see the app.

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