virtual-ta

cs 4485 virtual ta project

deployment

Note Since we do use ngrok tunneling for dev, there may be a need to modify the client code to make requests to local API server and not the tunneled version.

a version is already deployed with ngrok tunneling + vercel frontend deploys for ease of development! located on /home/generic/virtual-ta on the VM.

dockerized (wip) (requires docker-compose/podman-compose)

• Clone repo
• podman-compose up -d

non-dockerized (complex!)

(needs Python version supported by Rasa, NodeJS 19.x installed)

• Install deps for chat server by cding into chat_server and running pip3 install -r requirements.txt and pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
• Install Rasa as per instructions
• Install deps for frontend by running yarn in student-client folder
• Run the following in separate terminals:
  • Run Rasa server (cd to rasa-model folder): rasa run
  • Run Rasa action server (cd to rasa-model/actions folder): rasa run actions
  • Run API server (cd to chat_server folder): python3 app.py
  • Run student client (cd to student-client folder): yarn start