ChineseMe client

A client app for the ChineseMe project.

No longer maintained

ChineseMe (an online Chinese course) is no longer maintained nor available online. This repository is published here as a reference.

Development

$ cd react-ui/
$ npm install
$ npm start
# Also need to run chinese-me-server

ESLint

ESLint config comes from https://github.com/rangle/react-redux-example/blob/master/.eslintrc

// In react-ui folder
$ npm run lint

React storybook

Followed instructions in the docs.

$ npm i -g @storybook/cli
$ cd chinese-me/client/react-ui
$ getstorybook

Deployment

The app is deployed to Heroku with a Node server as described here.

$ heroku create chinese-me --remote production
# Set environment variables on Heroku (IMPORTANT: need to be done before building)
$ git push production master # This will run the build

Heroku DNS / CNAME:

Followed instructions from:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/automated-certificate-management
• https://help.heroku.com/VKRNVVF5/what-is-the-correct-dns-cname-target-for-my-custom-domains
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains

Gotcha: rootdomain doesn't work with SSL because Nammecheap isnt compatible using CNAME on rootdomain can cause lots of troubles (conflict with emails?) See: https://help.heroku.com/NH44MODG/my-root-domain-isn-t-working-what-s-wrong

See: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/579/2237/which-record-type-option-should-i-choose-for-the-information-im-about-to-enter "Please do not set up a CNAME record for a naked domain (@ hostname) since this may affect the operation of the domain's MX records and, consequently, the email service. In most cases, you will need to create a CNAME record for WWW (or other subdomain) and a URL redirect for @ that will point to http://www.yourdomain.tld/""

Environment variables

See .env.example file

Note: In order for Environment variables to be updated in the code after a change, the app needs to be rebuilt. This can be done by pushing an empty commit like so:

$ git commit --allow-empty -m "empty commit"
$ git push heroku master

Data licenses:

Pinyin sounds: https://github.com/pffy/mp3-chinese-pinyin-sound

Static assets

Static assets are stored in an AWS S3 bucket. Content is delivered by Amazon CloudFront based on this tutorial: https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tutorials/deliver-content-faster/

Environments

• development - http://localhost:3000
• staging - https://floating-dusk-88295.herokuapp.com
• production - https://chinese-me.herokuapp.com

Printing new PDF

• update the PDF version constant
• Be sure Cambria is installed locally (it uses font-face cambria src local)
• for every episode (in production, with no user setting) go in Chrome and do cmd + P
• save as PDF (advanced settings, scale should be 70%)