Comrad is an open-source web application for use by community radio stations that helps with crucial show scheduling and playlist entry to organize all on air and streaming processes for hosts and DJ’s. There is an initial version of it in use at KGNU in Boulder, CO, but the system needs several feature and usability improvements to bring it to the point where other community radio stations can adopt it.
This fellowship will allow the building of Comrad 2.0, permitting a standalone open source distribution in English and Spanish that will greatly benefit the small to mid-sized community radios as well as the hundreds of budget limited Lower Power FM radios just taking to the air in the United States.
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Here is what you need to know:
This project uses GitHub flow where updates are made on feature branches. Pull requests are submitted on those branches and reviewed before being merged.
Clone and install dependencies in both the root directory and in client/
:
$ git clone https://github.com/codefordenver/Comrad.git
# ...
$ cd Comrad/
$ npm ci
# ...
$ cd client/
$ npm ci
# ...
Note the use of the npm ci
command instead of install
: this installs the exact package versions specified in package-lock.json
rather than the fuzzy-matched versions in package.json
, thus giving you a more exact replica of the dependencies and avoiding much confusion.
Use npm run
to see a list of available commands.
To configure your environment variables (e.g. for database connection) ask a maintainer for the details.