Express Web Application for Pepper

This web application serves as an interface between the university robot Pepper and the Internet. It is part of the work at the AI Transfer Center Bremerhaven as well as part of the bachelor project of Benjamin T. Schwertfeger, Jacob B. Menge and Kristian Kellermann.

It will be used to dynamically send data to Pepper from the Internet, and will also connect to a Nextcloud database to which Pepper will automatically backup and retrieve data via this service. This application will run on the university server in a Docker on a shared user.

Requirements

• NodeJS (v16.6.1+)

$ node --version
v16.6.1

• npm (v7.20.3+)

$ npm --version
7.20.3

• mysql (v8+)

$ mysql --version
Ver 8.0.27 for macos12.0 on x86_64 (Homebrew)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ProjectPepperHSB/NodeJS_Server4Pepper.git

Initialization

• install required node packages

NodeJS_Server4Pepper:~$ npm i

• create database (edit .env for custom credentials)

mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE pepperbackend"

• edit .env file (example configuration in .exanple_env)

Run the application

• in development mode

NodeJS_Server4Pepper:~$ npm run dev

• in production mode

NodeJS_Server4Pepper:~$ npm run prod

Notes

• To run this application with the dashboard / login function you will need to create a rsa keypair!