Semantic-Cueing

Semantic Cueing is a system which helps to provide a speech therapy to patients with cognitive disabilities.

Installation Instructions

• Clone this repository to your local machine.

• Run the following command in your terminal:

  npm install

• Create a file named .env in the root directory of this repository.

• Fill in the following variables in the .env file:

  • DB_URL_DEV - The URL of your local MongoDB database.
  • DB_URL_PROD - The URL of your production MongoDB database.
  • DB_URL_QA - The URL of your QA MongoDB database.
  • secret - The secret key, can be any string.
  • algorithm - The algorithm used to hash the secret key. Examples are aes256, sha256, md5, etc.
  • EMAIL_ID - The email address of the email account used to send emails.
  • PASS - The password of the email account used to send emails.
  • key - The key used to encrypt and decrypt any string, which is of length 32 and alphanumeric.
  • ivstring - The initialization vector used to encrypt and decrypt any string, which is of length 16 and alphanumeric.
  • ADMIN_USERNAME - The username of the admin account.
  • ADMIN_PASSWORD - The password of the admin account.

• To run the server, run the following command in your terminal:

  • npm run dev - Start server in development mode.
  • npm start - Start server in production mode.
  • npm test - Start server in QA mode.

Instructions to create a ADMIN account

• Open routes/admin.js in your text editor.
• Change the following line of code

  router.post("/register", upload.array("displaypic", 1), isLoggedIn, isAdmin, registerValidator, register_post);

• Change the line to:

  router.post("/register",upload.array("displaypic", 1), register_post);

• Make a POST request to /register using POSTMAN
• The request body should be:

  {
      "username": "SOME_VALUE",
      "password": "SOME_VALUE",
      "email": "SOME_VALUE",
      "name": "SOME_VALUE",
      "displaypic": "SOME PICTURE",
      "age": "SOME_VALUE",
      "role": "admin"
  }

• After creating the ADMIN account, revert the changes made in routes/admin.js.