Introduction

Hello there, this is the CSSI translation app. Currently this webapp supports English to French translation and vice versa (This functionality can be easily extended by changing a few lines of code as the app has access to all supported languages of the google translate cloud API). Here are the instructions to run this app:

Aquiring Google Cloud Platform Translation Authenticatiion Secrets JSON File

1. In order to run this web app, it is required to have a google service account with access to the translation API service.
2. Then the JSON containing the API secrets has to placed into the CSSITranslatorApp folder.
3. Then in the Translators.cs file, all instances of the project-id should be set to your project id which can be acquired from google cloud platform

Starting The App

1. Navigate to the folder that contains the CCSITranslatorApp.csproj file
2. Open the console at this location and run the following commands

3. dotnet restore
   

4. npm install
   

5.  dotnet build
   

6. dotnet run
   

7. In the browser go navigate to https://localhost:7116
8. The app should be started.

Starting The App In A Docker Container

1. Navigate to the parent directory (where the .sln file is) and run the following command to create the image:

docker build -f .\CSSITranslatorApp\Dockerfile --force-rm -t cssitranslatorimage .

2. run the following command to create the container:

docker run -it -p 4242:80 --name cssitranslator cssitranslatorimage