Talk: Create a Talk demo on Glitch

[kgardnr]

If you'd like a fun project, let's try and get Talk up and running on Glitch. The goal should be an easy way to launch an instance of Talk.

Glitch: https://glitch.com/

AC:

• Make Dockerized version of Talk work with Glitch
• Ability to change the styling

[leeyspaul]

Hi! I'd love to take up this issue and contribute if it's up for grabs.

[kgardnr]

@leeyspaul it sure is!

[leeyspaul]

Awesome! I'll look into this today!

[leeyspaul]

Hi @kgardnr! I took a look and got the demo running with the given docker image on my own machine but I'm a little lost as to how to get a dockerized version running on Glitch.

Would you have any resources or comments on where to start with this?

Thanks!

[kgardnr]

Hey @leeyspaul! Unfortunately we don't - it actually might not be possible - https://support.glitch.com/t/installing-docker-in-glitchs-terminal/2816/5

What do you think?

[leeyspaul]

Yeah, I actually just saw that today. I was researching and I couldn't find anything. :(

[kgardnr]

Hmm.. I wonder if there's any other way we could get an instance of Talk running on Glitch @leeyspaul?

Sending the bat signal to our friends @leeeandroo @hellp @clintabrown @cristiandean @davisshaver @erikreyna @facuesr @PepeFranco @kitwestneat @meddy if they have any ideas - and Happy Hacktoberfest!

[kitwestneat]

I think if you follow the install from source instructions it should work. One hiccup is that you'll need to find alternative install methods for Redis and Mongodb.

Here's someone with some redis tips:
https://support.glitch.com/t/redis-data-persistence/4567/2

It looks like everyone uses mLab for mongodb on glitch.

I tried it briefly, but it keeps running out of memory on the webpack phase. Perhaps it's possible to precompile it?

[styfle]

The goal should be an easy way to launch an instance of Talk.

If Glitch doesn't work, you can pretty easily deploy any Dockerfile to Zeit Now.

1. create the Dockerfile in the root of your project
2. install the cli with npm install -g now
3. login to your account with now login
4. deploy your code with now --docker
5. alias the deployment with a pretty url with now alias talk.example.com

[justanotherlad]

HI! Can I take this issue up?
Is it possible to deploy Talk on Slack?

[kgardnr]

@swastikbanerjee07 - we have some Slack integrations, yes!

https://github.com/coralproject/talk-plugin-slack-bouncer
https://github.com/coralproject/talk-plugin-slack-notifications