Linguist

Linguist allows you to talk to people around the world in different languages by translating your messages automatically for you.

Table of Contents

1. Usage
2. Requirements
3. Development
   1. Installing Dependencies
   2. Tasks
4. Team
5. Contributing

Usage

You can try linguist out here: http://linguist.azurewebsites.net.

From the home page:

1. Select your language from the sidebar
2. Create a username
3. Select the room you want to chat in. If no room is selected, default is lobby
4. Start chatting!

Requirements

• Node 0.10.x
• MongoDB
• Microsoft Translator

Development

Installing Dependencies

1. Run npm and bower install

From within the root directory:

npm install -g bower
npm install
bower install

2. Acquire Microsoft Translator credentials (Client ID and Client secret) through Windows Azure. Guide available here.

3. Create a config.js file in /server/ with the following contents:

var config = {};
config.client_id = "FILL ME IN";
config.client_secret = "FILL ME IN";
config.localDevPath = 'mongodb://localhost:27017/linguist';
module.exports = config;

Tasks

gulp - Runs tests, builds public scripts, and serves site on local server port 3000, and watches for changes to files (server and public).

gulp scripts - Builds public scripts for deployment, placing result in /public/dist

gulp test-server - Server Test

gulp test-client - Client Test

Roadmap

View the project roadmap here

Team

• Product Owner: Jared Noble
• Scrum Master: Dave Fedele
• Development Team Members: Tyler Davis, Ryan Leung

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.