This Repo Contains:

• TextFlow.us marketing site
• TextFlow beta webapp
• TextFlow alpha Slack integration
• TextFlow Android WebView container with interface to access SMS and Contacts DB.

The following assumes that the domain is textflow.us and that you're installing on a modern Debian-compatible flavor of Linux

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/samrahimi/textflow-alpha.git && cd textflow-alpha
• Install NPM dependencies:

sudo npm install

• Install MongoDB 3.4 or higher or sign up for a hosted instance. Create an empty database (the example below assumes the DB name is textflow)
• Create an instance of Watson Tone Analyzer service on Bluemix and save the credentials.
• Create a .env file and set the port, MongoDB connection string and Watson credentials to match your setup. If you want to use SSL, set PORT=80 and app will run on http:80 and https:443

PORT=80 
DB=mongodb://localhost:27017/textflow
WATSON_PASSWORD='Password for your tone analyzer service'
WATSON_USER = 'Username for your tone analyzer service'

NOTE: this app is configured to use CERTBOT on Debian 8 and assumes certificate location and type based on that. If you wish to use a different SSL provider or server OS, edit /bin/www to load the appropriate certificate

sudo apt-get install certbot -t jessie-backports
sudo certbot certonly

The CertBot UI will ask you some questions: enter your domain name where you're hosting and accept default settings for everything else

sudo npm start

If you want the site to stay up when you disconnect from the server, you need to run it as a service. Assuming you're on Debian 8, you can edit the service definition in /service/test.service file and update the file locations and username as follows:

1. Create a user with root privileges (e.g. node_service). This account should not be used by humans for security reasons!
2. nano ./service/test.service and update paths, working directory, etc.
3. sudo cp ./service/test.service /etc/systemd/system
4. sudo systemctl start test
5. check by going to textflow.us in your browser or use: sudo journalctl -u test

NOTE: Assumes a working installation as described above)

1. SSH into remote.
2. Stop the service: sudo systemctl stop test
3. git pull
4. Start the service sudo systemctl start test

TODO!