🚀 Language Translator Sample Application

This Node.js app demonstrates some of the Language Translator service features.

The IBM Watson™ Language Translator service provides an Application Programming Interface (API) that lets you identify the language of text, and then use a custom business domain to translate the text from one supported language to another.
You can translate either by letting the service identify the source language or by selecting a source language and then by selecting a target language, and a business domain. Domain translation is linguistically targeted these business domains:

• The News domain - targeted at news articles and transcripts, it translates English to and from Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, or Spanish. It also translates Spanish to and from French.
• The Conversational domain - targeted at conversational colloquialisms, it translates English to and from Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, or Spanish.
• The Patent domain - targeted at technical and legal terminology, it translates Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, or Spanish to English.

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Prerequisites

1. Sign up for an IBM Cloud account.
2. Download the IBM Cloud CLI.
3. Create an instance of the Language Translator service and get your credentials:
   • Go to the Language Translator page in the IBM Cloud Catalog.
   • Log in to your IBM Cloud account.
   • Click Create.
   • Click Show to view the service credentials.
   • Copy the apikey value, or copy the username and password values if your service instance doesn't provide an apikey.
   • Copy the url value.

Configuring the application

1. In the application folder, copy the .env.example file and create a file called .env

   cp .env.example .env
   

2. Open the .env file and add the service credentials that you obtained in the previous step.

   Example .env file that configures the apikey and url for a Language Translator service instance hosted in the US East region:

   LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_IAM_APIKEY=X4rbi8vwZmKpXfowaS3GAsA7vdy17Qh7km5D6EzKLHL2
   LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_URL=https://gateway-wdc.watsonplatform.net/language-translator/api
   

   • If your service instance uses username and password credentials, add the LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_USERNAME and LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_PASSWORD variables to the .env file.

   Example .env file that configures the username, password, and url for a Language Translator service instance hosted in the Sydney region:

   LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_USERNAME=522be-7b41-ab44-dec3-g1eab2ha73c6
   LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_PASSWORD=A4Z5BdGENrwu8
   LANGUAGE_TRANSLATOR_URL=https://gateway-syd.watsonplatform.net/language-translator/api
   

Running locally

1. Install the dependencies

   npm install
   

2. Run the application

   npm start
   

3. View the application in a browser at localhost:3000

Deploying to IBM Cloud as a Cloud Foundry Application

1. Login to IBM Cloud with the IBM Cloud CLI

   ibmcloud login
   

2. Target a Cloud Foundry organization and space.

   ibmcloud target --cf
   

3. Edit the manifest.yml file. Change the name field to something unique.
   For example, - name: my-app-name.

4. Deploy the application

   ibmcloud app push
   

5. View the application online at the app URL.
   For example: https://my-app-name.mybluemix.net

License

This sample code is licensed under Apache 2.0.
Full license text is available in LICENSE.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.

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