Swanton Chat Bot

A chatbot web app for the Swanton Virtual Assistant. Its purpose is to answer historical and cultural questions about Swanton Pacific Ranch.

See it live

Features include:

• A simplistic chat interface where users send messages to the Swanton Virtual Assistant
• FAQs that direct visitors toward interesting historical stories about the ranch.
• A simple interactive map to learn about different locations on the ranch.

Getting Started

1. Clone this repo: https://github.com/EdikusRex/CalPoppy.git
2. Navigate to folder: cd CalPoppy
3. Install dependencies: npm install
4. Start the backend server (see section below)
5. Start the development server (in a new terminal in the main directory): npm start
6. Open the app in your browser: http://localhost:3000

Running the backend

(Note that python may have to be replaced with python3)

1. Navigate to folder: cd flask-server
2. Update submodule if KGQA is empty: git submodule update --init --recursive

If the submodule won't update, try removing it and then adding it again: git rm -r --cached KGQA git submodule add https://github.com/mathurma/KGQA KGQA

On Mac/Linux:

3. Create a virtual environment: python -m venv venv
4. Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/activate
5. Install the requirements.txt file: pip install -r requirements.txt or python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Run the server: flask run

On Windows:

3. Create a virtual environment: python -m venv venv
4. Activate the virtualenv: venv\Scripts\activate
5. Install the requirements.txt file: pip install -r requirements.txt
6. Manually install flask and encorewebsm
   • pip install flask
   • pip install -U setuptools wheel
   • pip install -U spacy
   • python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
7. Run the server: flask run

Updating the Front End

Note: Ensure to only pull the src folder, changes were made to flask-server, package.json, and other files to make the project compatible to deploy to Google Cloud App Engine.

1. Check out the gcloud config branch: git checkout gcloud-config
2. Pull the src folder from master into gcloud-config: git checkout master -- src
3. Add, Commit, and push the changes to gcloud-config to trigger the Github Actions workflow to update the website on Google Cloud App Engine
   • git add src

   You can run git status here to check that only files in src are the Changes to be committed

   • git commit -m "Pulled Master frontend"
   • git push