# Slatebox App Development

# Quickstart

Note this guide is to install and run Slatebox on your own development machine. If you want to host on your server, it is recommended that you follow the docker installation guide.

Want to run Slatebox with the source code? This assumes a Linux environment - 5 easy steps:

   npm install -g meteor

   git clone [email protected]:Slatebox/slatebox.git

  cd slatebox/web/app

   meteor npm install

  npm run start

And boom, you should see => App running at: http://localhost:3000/ in your command line. Navigate there, and you will have Slatebox running on your machine, ready for local development. 💪

# Environment Variables

Environment variables can be set to extend Slatebox's functionality, but they are not necessary (the quickstart above does not set them). The environment variables available are the same as when running Slatebox via Docker:

Env Variable Name	Description
NOUN_PROJECT_KEY	Enable custom shape searching in Slatebox via the NounProject. It has access to over 3 million shapes. link
NOUN_PROJECT_SECRET
CHATWOOT_TOKEN	Chatwoot lets you add a drop-in support widget to the site link
MAIL_URL	Provide an smtp mail server for outgoing messages link
GOOGLE_API_KEY	Google's API key is needed both for retrieving fonts link
GOOGLE_IMAGE_SEARCH_API_KEY	Google's Image API key is needed both for searching images
PIXABAY_API_KEY	An API key from Pixabay is needed to search slate background images link
AWS_SECRET_KEY	AWS credentials are required to use the copy-to-cloud-url feature when exporting a slate link
AWS_ACCESS_KEY	"
AWS_S3_IMAGE_BUCKET	"
IMAGE_CLOUD_URL	You can set up an alias to the cloudfront cdn (or otherwise) and use that DNS name here link
GOOGLE_DOCS_CLIENT_ID	Google Docs can be integrated with these env variables link
GOOGLE_DOCS_PROJECT_ID	"
GOOGLE_DOCS_AUTH_URI	"
GOOGLE_DOCS_TOKEN_URI	"
GOOGLE_DOCS_AUTH_PROVIDER_X509_CERT_URL	"
GOOGLE_DOCS_CLIENT_SECRET	"
GOOGLE_DOCS_REDIRECT_URIS	"
GOOGLE_DOCS_JAVASCRIPT_ORIGINS	"
DAILY_API_KEY	Integrate into daily.co for audio and video huddles link
DAILY_URL	"

Set whichever environment variables you'd lik to enable (e.g., export PIXABAY_API_KEY='xyx'), then restart the app with npm run start.