readwrite-school

Programmatic reading and writing practice books.

Installation

1. git clone
2. npm install

Requires a .env file with the following variables:

• NYT_API_KEY - API key from the New York Times (wordlist)
• UNSPLASH_APP_ID - Unsplash.com App ID (photos)
• UNSPLASH_SECRET - Unsplash.com API secret (photos)
• PROJECT_ID - Google Cloud project ID (translations)
• DB_URL - Mongo connection string`

Database Seeding

Scripts are seperate in order to work around API limits.

Generate wordlist from NYT: node bin/fetch-data.js

Import images: node bin/image-import.js

Import translations:  node bin/translations-import.js (you'll need to enable the Google Translations API in the Cloud Console)

Sample Sentences

Export data and import a CSV of sentences for each word:

1. Create a directory in the project folder called "./tmp"
2. node bin/generate-csv.js will export a CSV
3. Add sentences to a new column called "New Sentence"
4. Run node bin/csv-import.js to add the sentences to the database

Rendering PDFs

1. Create a "./pdf" directory inside "./tmp"
2. Make sure all the data is seeded, then run node bin/render-pages