velesresearch 0.0.19

Veles is a free and open source python survey tool for researchers.

Veles is a free and open source Python research package, primarly for social scientists. It's goal is to provide an interface for surveys and chronometric experiments. It combines the power of Survey.js and PsychoJS (PsychoPy) with Python interface to create self contained research units that can be self-hosted. Veles' own web service for creating and hosting experiments are planned.

Veles is in pre-alpha development, but the goal features are:

• Free and open source.

• Text-based, so automatable and easily modifiable.

• Integration with GitHub.

• Ability to use JavaScript and CSS directly.

• Open source documentation.

• Python-based, so every Python tools work.

• Esay to collaborate through git.

• VS code extension pack.

• Custom redirection in the end (for panels).

• PsychoPy integration.

• JavaScript code preview.

• Modifiable themes.

Installation

You can install the current version of Veles with:

pip install velesresearch

You can install development version (unstable) with:

pip install velesresearch@git+https://github.com/jakub-jedrusiak/VelesResearch.git

Note that yarn is required for Veles to work. You can download it from here or use your package manager.

# Ubuntu (and other apt distros)
sudo apt install npm

# Arch
sudo pacman -S npm

# winget
winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS

# Chocolatey
choco install nodejs-lts

# Homebrew
brew install node

After installing node.js, activate yarn with this command in the terminal:

corepack enable

If everything went well, command yarn -v should return a version number.