Zotero Bib

Overview

This repo contains Zotero Bib tool, including React components, stylesheets and entry-point website.

Prerequisites

1. Node JS with npm
2. Basic command-line tools including rsync
3. Existing translation-server
4. Existing bib-server
5. Existing styles-repo

Local Development version

Getting The Library

1. git clone --recursive git@github.com:zotero/bib-web.git

2. cd bib-web

3. npm install

4. npm start

This will serve demo on http://127.0.0.1:8001.

You might need to provide configuration options (see below) in order to get storage and translation to work.

By default, the development server proxies translations server requests to localhost:1969. If your server is located elsewhere you need to provide the url, e.g. the last step above would look like this:

1. npm start --zotero-bib-web:translation_server="http://localhost:1234"

This will proxy requests from the browser to the specified translation server.

Using in Production

To obtain production-ready files use the following npm command:

npm run build

Configuration

It's possible to provide configuration parameters for the build (both in development and production) using configuration files and/or environment variables. The easiest way is to copy config/default.json to config/local.json and place variables there (this file is git ignored and should not be committed). Alternatively environment variables listed in config/custom-environment-variables.json can be used. For more details how to provide configurations, see config npm package.

Configuration options

The following configuration options are accepted:

storeURL Specifies url for the bib-server api where bibliographies are stored.

stylesURL Specifies url for the styles-repo website. When left empty, default will be used which is https://www.zotero.org/styles-files/styles.json

translatePrefix Specifies an additional prefix for where translation server request should be send. Useful in cases where translateURL is left empty so that it's possible to direct requests to a specific endpoint at wherever zotero-bib is being hosted.

translateURL Specifies url for the translation-server. By default current host is assumed to proxy request to the translation server.