You might want to quickly look at what someone's experiment, you might be collaborating with others who might not be involved in the coding of the experiment but still want to test it locally, or you might want to copy/tweak these instructions into a readme.md
file on your repository for people who come across your experiment.
If you haven't already:
Install Node.js
and npm
here: https://nodejs.org/en/
Install Meteor
here: https://www.meteor.com/install
Clone the repository with their experiment to a local repository on your device. In the command line run this to install all the Node packages:
meteor npm install
You can now run the app on your local machine with:
meteor
This can take a few minutes.
This will start the app that you can access as a participant: https:/localhost:3000/
You can access the admin panel here: https:/localhost:3000/admin
Log in with the username and password provided in the command line.
To use the app, you usually need to use treatments and factors. Some might be prepared in a .yaml
file (e.g., factors.yaml
). In the admin panel:
click on the Configuration button
click on import
select the .yaml
file you want to import the factors and treatments from
wait a few seconds for the factors and treatments to be imported
To run a game create a new batch
with the games of treatments you want to use and click start on the batch.
Open a player tab by going to https:/localhost:3000/ or clicking on open app.
The player that you open with https:/localhost:3000/ is cached on your browser. Whenever you start a game with this player, your local app will keep that information. To play again there are multiple things you can do:
Click on the Reset current session button on header of a tab with your player to reset this player, and create a new game for this player to join.
Click on the New Player button on header of a tab with your player to open a new tab with a different player (you will see tab with an id).
Go to the Players tab in the admin panel and retire players that have finished or cancelled.
The app will hot reload as you save changes to the code.