Setup for making contributions about videowiki HOT 2 CLOSED

Hello @maskaravivek
Thank you for considering contributing to VideoWiki.

Regarding the 3rd party services that VideoWiki depends on, I'll be pushing changes sometime this week removing the necessity to use Mailgun, Google Captcha and Slack ( they're not tightly bound to how VideoWiki works ). however please bear in mind that You'd need to add such accounts in case you want to use these parts in VideoWiki locally ( ex: Mailgun and Google Captcha for signing up )

However regarding the main services used ( AWS Polly and S3 ), It'd be hard to give such test/development accounts as we're getting charged per character converted by AWS Polly and S3 storage, I'm currently implementing a solution for this issue ( provide default audios for articles when there's no AWS accounts used )

And regarding the issue you're having with npm run dev that's caused because your api is not running (
webpack server is configured to proxy over it ), make sure that the api is running before running the dev server.

from videowiki.

I've pushed new changes that will take care of the 3rd party services needed.
Now all you need to set up is APP_SECRET for express and DB_CONNECTION_URL for the mongodb instance.

from videowiki.