Kotahi

Kotahi is a manuscript submission system, based on the discontinued xpub-collabra project. It is currently under development by the Coko Foundation and is being built with Pubsweet.

Installation

Developer beware! This project is currently under very heavy development, so things will most definitely be broken. We also don't have a fixed roadmap for it at this point.

Running the app

Start with installing the dependencies:

yarn

Create the file local-development.json inside the config folder.

{
  "pubsweet-server": {
    "secret": "<your-secret-here>"
  }
}

Run the Docker container for the database:

yarn start:services

Now (in a separate terminal) run the server (backend PubSweet app):

yarn pubsweet start:server

And the XSweet (Docx to HTML conversion) job runner:

docker run -e DATABASE_URL="postgres://yourusername@host.docker.internal/yourdatabase" -e WAIT_SERVICE_PORT="host.docker.internal:5432" pubsweet/job-xsweet

And in another terminal run the client (webpack-based PubSweet app):

yarn pubsweet start:client

Other credits

The real-time chat functionality was heavily inspired by https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum, from data model approach to copying and adapting certain bits of their React app. Thank you, Spectrum!