The first developer-oriented translation tool
True asynchronous flow between translators and your team.
Accent provides a powerful abstraction around the process maintaining translations in a web/native app.
- History. Full history control and actions rollback. Who did what, when.
- UI. Simple yet powerful UI to enable translator and developer to be productive.
- CLI. Command line tool to easily add Accent to your developer flow.
- Collaboration. Centralize your discussions around translations.
- GraphQL. The API that powers the UI is open and documented. Itโs easy to build a plugin/cli/library around Accent.
Contents
Section | Description |
---|---|
Quickly setup a working app | |
Dependencies required to run Accentโ stack | |
How to execute mix task with the Twelve-Factor pattern | |
Steps to run the project, from API to webapp, with or without Docker | |
Required and optional env var used | |
How to run the extensive tests suite | |
Easy deployment setup with Heroku | |
How to contribute to this repo |
๐ Getting started
Easiest way to run an instance of Accent is by using the offical docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/mirego/accent
- The only external dependancy is a PostgreSQL database.
- Create a
.env
file. Example:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://[email protected]/accent_development
DUMMY_LOGIN_ENABLED=1
- Run the image
$ docker run --env-file .env -p 4000:4000 mirego/accent
This will start the webserver on port 4000, migrate the database to have an up and running Accent instance!
๐ง Requirements
erlang ~> 24.0
elixir ~> 1.13
postgres >= 9.4
node.js >= 16.13
libyaml >= 0.1.7
๐ Executing mix commands
The app is modeled with the Twelve-Factor App architecture, all configurations are stored in the environment.
When executing mix
commands, you should always make sure that the required environment variables are present. You can source
, use nv or a custom l33t bash script.
Every following steps assume you have this kind of system.
But Accent can be run with default environment variables if you have a PostgreSQL user named postgres
listening on port 5432
on localhost
.
Example
With nv
you inject the environment keys in the context with:
$ nv .env mix <mix command>
๐ Quickstart
This is the full development setup. To simply run the app, see the Getting started instructions
- If you donโt already have it, install
nodejs
withbrew install nodejs
- If you donโt already have it, install
elixir
withbrew install elixir
- If you donโt already have it, install
libyaml
withbrew install libyaml
- If you donโt already have it, install
postgres
withbrew install postgres
or the Docker setup as described below. - Install dependencies with
make dependencies
- Create and migrate your database with
mix ecto.setup
- Start Phoenix endpoint with
mix phx.server
Thatโs it! You should now be able to open the app at http://localhost:4000
Makefile
The Makefile should be the main entry for common tasks such as tests, linting, Docker, etc. This simplifies the development process since you donโt have to search for which service provides which command. mix
, npm
, prettier
, docker
, stylelint
, etc are all used in the Makefile.
Docker
For the production setup, we use Docker to build an OTP release of the app. With docker-compose, you can run the image locally. Here are the steps to have a working app running locally with Docker:
When running the production env, you need to provide a valid GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_ID in the docker-compose.yml
file.
- Run
make build
to build the OTP release with Docker - Run
make dev-start-postgresql
to start an instance of Postgresql. The instance will run on port 5432 with thepostgres
user. You can change those values in thedocker-compose.yml
file. - Run
make dev-start-application
to start the app! The release hook of the release will execute migrations and seeds before starting the webserver on port 4000 (again you can change the settings indocker-compose.yml
)
Thatโs it! You now have a working Accent instance without installing Elixir or Node!
๐ณ Environment variables
Accent provides a default value for every required environment variable. This means that with the right PostgreSQL setup, you can just run mix phx.server
.
Variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
DATABASE_URL |
postgres://localhost/accent_development |
A valid database URL |
PORT |
4000 |
A port to run the app on |
Production setup
Variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
RESTRICTED_PROJECT_CREATOR_EMAIL_DOMAIN |
none | If specified, only authenticated users from this domain name will be able to create new projects. |
FORCE_SSL |
false | If the app should always be served by https (and wss for websocket) |
SENTRY_DSN |
none | The secret Sentry DSN used to collect API runtime errors |
WEBAPP_SENTRY_DSN |
none | The public Sentry DSN used to collect Webapp runtime errors |
CANONICAL_URL |
none | The URL of the app. Used in sent emails and to redirect from external services to the app in the authentication flow. |
STATIC_URL |
none | The URL of the app. Default to the CANONICAL_URL value. |
WEBAPP_SKIP_SUBRESOURCE_INTEGRITY |
none | Remove integrity attributes on link and script tag. Useful when using a proxy that compress resources before serving them. |
DATABASE_SSL |
false | If SSL should be used to connect to the database |
DATABASE_POOL_SIZE |
10 | The size of the pool used by the database connection module |
MACHINE_TRANSLATIONS_VAULT_KEY |
DEFAULT_UNSAFE_VAULT_KEY | The secret key that is used to encrypt machine translations services config key |
Authentication setup
Various login providers are included in Accent using Ueberauth to abstract services.
Variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
DUMMY_LOGIN_ENABLED |
none | If specified, the password-less authentication (with only the email) will be available. |
GITHUB_CLIENT_ID |
none | |
GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET |
none | |
GITLAB_CLIENT_ID |
none | |
GITLAB_CLIENT_SECRET |
none | |
GITLAB_SITE_URL |
https://gitlab.com |
|
GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_ID |
none | |
GOOGLE_API_CLIENT_SECRET |
none | |
SLACK_CLIENT_ID |
none | |
SLACK_CLIENT_SECRET |
none | |
SLACK_TEAM_ID |
none | |
DISCORD_CLIENT_ID |
none | |
DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET |
none | |
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID |
none | |
MICROSOFT_CLIENT_SECRET |
none | |
MICROSOFT_TENANT_ID |
none |
Email setup
If you want to send emails, youโll have to configure the following environment variables:
Variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
MAILER_FROM |
none | The email address used to send emails. |
SENDGRID_API_KEY |
none | Use SendGrid to send emails |
MANDRILL_API_KEY |
none | Use Mandrill to send emails |
MAILGUN_API_KEY |
none | Use Mailgun to send emails |
SMTP_ADDRESS |
none | Use an SMTP server to send your emails. |
SMTP_API_HEADER |
none | An optional API header that will be added to sent emails. |
SMTP_PORT |
none | The port ex: (25, 465, 587). |
SMTP_PASSWORD |
none | The password for authentification. |
SMTP_USERNAME |
none | The username for authentification. |
Metrics and monitoring setup
If you want to track performance of Accent, you can configure NewRelic with the following environment variables:
Variable | Default | Description |
---|---|---|
NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME |
none | Service APM name |
NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY |
none | License key |
Kubernetes helm chart setup
You can setup the project with a helm chart like this one. This project uses a fork by andreymaznyak and not this canonical repository. The specs and values may need to be updated if you use this repo.
โ
Tests
API
Accent provides a default value for every required environment variable. This means that with the right PostgreSQL setup (and a few setup commands), you can just run mix test
.
$ npm --prefix webapp run build
$ mix run ./priv/repo/seeds.exs
$ mix test
The full check that runs in the CI environment can be executed with ./priv/scripts/ci-check.sh
.
๐ Deploy on Heroku
An Heroku-compatible app.json
makes it easy to deploy the application on Heroku.
Using Heroku CLI
Based on this guide
$> heroku create
Creating app... done, โฌข peaceful-badlands-85887
https://peaceful-badlands-85887.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/peaceful-badlands-85887.git
$> heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev --app peaceful-badlands-85887
Creating heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev on โฌข peaceful-badlands-85887... free
Database has been created and is available
$> heroku config:set FORCE_SSL=true DUMMY_LOGIN_ENABLED=true --app peaceful-badlands-85887
Setting FORCE_SSL, DUMMY_LOGIN_ENABLED and restarting โฌข peaceful-badlands-85887... done
$> heroku container:push web --app peaceful-badlands-85887
=== Building web
Your image has been successfully pushed. You can now release it with the 'container:release' command.
$> heroku container:release web --app peaceful-badlands-85887
Releasing images web to peaceful-badlands-85887... done
๐ Contribute
Before opening a pull request, please open an issue first.
Once youโve made your additions and the test suite passes, go ahead and open a PR!
Donโt forget to run the ./priv/scripts/ci-check.sh
script to make sure that the CI build will pass :)
License
Accent is ยฉ 2015-2019 Mirego and may be freely distributed under the New BSD license. See the LICENSE.md
file.
About Mirego
Mirego is a team of passionate people who believe that work is a place where you can innovate and have fun. Weโre a team of talented people who imagine and build beautiful Web and mobile applications. We come together to share ideas and change the world.
We also love open-source software and we try to give back to the community as much as we can.