Run The Environment Locally

Find below all the information to properly run Utopian.io on your local machine if you wish to contribute to development of the project.

Run the frontend

Clone and Install

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```cd utopian.io

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### Generate and Export SSL Certificates

```openssl req -x509 -sha512 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365 -nodes

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```export SERVER_SSL_KEY="/path/key.pem"

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Replace path with the path to the generated .pem files.
**You may need to authorise your browser in using a self-signed SSL certificate**

### Run The Frontend

```npm run dev-server

Run the backend

Run a MongoDB Instance

• Create a database named utopian-io
• Create the following collections:
• a. users
• b. moderators
• c. posts
• d. sessions
• e. sponsors
• f. projects
• g. stats
• h. faqs

Clone and Install

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```cd api.utopian.io

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### Create .env file

UTOPIAN_GITHUB_SECRET=GITHUB_SECRET_HERE UTOPIAN_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=GITHUB_CLIENT_ID_HERE UTOPIAN_GITHUB_REDIRECT_URL=http://localhost:3000/github/callback UTOPIAN_STEEMCONNECT_SECRET=STEEM_CONNECT_SECRET MONGO_HOST=mongodb://localhost/utopian-io

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You can generate a Steem Connect secret by creating an application on https://v2.steemconnect.com/apps/create.

Replace the Github values by creating a test app for your local environment.

### Generate and Export SSL Certificates

```export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0

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```export SERVER_SSL_CERT="/path/cert.pem"

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Replace path with the path to the generated .pem files.
**You may need to authorise your browser in using a self-signed SSL certificate**

### Run The Backend

```npm run build

npm run dev-server

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

@freedom - Vote Witness	@misterdelegation
@ned	@transisto
@wackou - Vote Witness	@xeldal - Vote Witness
@lafona-miner - Vote Witness	@cnts
@steempty - Vote Witness	@thecryptodrive - Vote Witness

@ruah	@espoem
@knowledges	@arie.steem
@elear	@damla
@mcfarhat	@rosatravels
@omeratagun	@manishmike10

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