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# roar-firekit
Welcome to roar-firekit! Roar-firekit helps you store the data from your [ROAR application](https://dyslexia.stanford.edu/roar/) in [Cloud Firestore](https://cloud.google.com/firestore).
## Installation
You can install [roar-firekit from npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bdelab/roar-firekit) with
```bash
npm i @bdelab/roar-firekit
```
## Usage
Roar-firekit is agnostic about where your data comes from, but I anticipate most users will use roar-firekit with their experiments written in [jsPsych](https://www.jspsych.org/).
The main entrypoint to roar-firekit's API is the [[`RoarAppkit`]] class. Its
constructor expects an object with keys `userInfo`, `taskInfo`, and `config`, where
`userInfo` is a [[`UserDataInAdminDb`]] object, `taskInfo` is a
[[`TaskVariantInput`]] object, and `config` is a [[`AssessmentConfigData`]] object.
### Constructor inputs
#### `userInfo`
User information is encapsulated in a [[`UserDataInAdminDb`]] object. Its only required
key is `id`, which should be the current user's ROAR UID, which is also sometimes called the ROAR PID:
```javascript
const minimalUserInfo = { id: 'roar-user-id' };
```
But you can supply other information about the user if you know it:
```javascript
const fullUserInfo = {
id: 'roar-user-id',
birthMonth: 7,
birthYear: 2014,
classId: 'roar-class-id',
schoolId: 'roar-school-id',
districtId: 'roar-district-id',
groupId: 'roar-group-id',
userCategory: 'student',
}
```
#### `taskInfo`
Information about the current task is encapsulated in a [[`TaskVariantInput`]] object. Here is the task information for a fictitious "Not Hotdog" task:
```javascript
const taskInfo = {
taskId: 'nhd',
taskName: 'Not Hotdog',
variantName: 'Not Hotdog, one block',
taskDescription: 'A demonstration task using the hot dog / not hot dog problem',
variantDescription: 'One block, random order',
blocks: [
{
blockNumber: 1,
trialMethod: "random-without-replacement",
corpus: "pointer-to-location-of-stimulus-corpus",
},
]
}
```
#### `config`
The config object contains configuration information for your Firebase project. You may want to store your config object in separate javascript file (named "roarConfig.js" for this documentation). A template is provided below
Click to expand!
```javascript
export const roarConfig = {
"firebaseConfig": {
"apiKey": "insert your firebase API key here",
"authDomain": "insert your firebase auth domain here",
"projectId": "insert your firebase project ID here",
"storageBucket": "insert your firebase storage bucket here",
"messagingSenderId": "insert your firebase messaging sender ID here",
"appId": "insert your firebase app ID here",
"measurementId": "insert your firebase measurement ID here",
},
"rootDoc": ["some collection name", "some document name"],
}
```
##### `firebaseConfig`
To get the `firebaseConfig` fields, see [this article](https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/7015592#zippy=%2Cin-this-article) on how to retrieve your firebase config. TLDR: go directly to [your project's settings](https://console.firebase.google.com/project/_/settings/general/), scroll down to "SDK setup and configuration," click the "Config" radio button, and copy the snippet for your app's Firebase config object.
##### `rootDoc`
The `rootDoc` is an array of strings representing the document under which all ROAR data will be stored. Note that `rootDoc` does not have to be in the actual root of your Cloud Firestore database.
### Constructing the firekit
With the above defined input, you would construct a firekit using
```javascript
import { RoarAppkit } from '@bdelab/roar-firekit';
import { roarConfig } from './roarConfig.js';
// Insert input definition code from above
const firekit = new RoarAppkit({
userInfo: minimalUserInfo,
taskInfo,
config: roarConfig,
})
```
## Starting a run
Starting a run writes the user, task, and run information to Cloud Firestore:
```javascript
await firekit.startRun();
```
If you are using roar-firekit with jsPsych, you should call this method before
experiment starts, either by awaiting it before the `jsPsych.run` method,
```javascript
await firekit.startRun();
jsPsych.run(timeline);
```
or by calling it as part of the `on_timeline_start` callback,
```javascript
const procedure = {
timeline: [trial1, trial2],
on_timeline_start: function() {
await firekit.startRun();
}
}
```
## Writing a trial to Firestore
After starting a run, you can write individual trial data to Cloud Firestore using the `writeTrial` method.
This method can be added to individual jsPsych trials by calling it from
the `on_finish` function, like so:
```javascript
var trial = {
type: 'image-keyboard-response',
stimulus: 'imgA.png',
on_finish: function(data) {
firekit.writeTrial(data);
}
};
```
Or you can call it from all trials in a jsPsych
timeline by calling it from the `on_data_update` callback. In this
case, you can avoid saving extraneous trials by conditionally calling
this method based on the data. For example:
```javascript
initJsPsych({
on_data_update: function(data) {
if (data.saveToFirestore) {
firekit.addTrialData(data);
}
}
});
const timeline = [
// A fixation trial; don't save to Firestore
{
type: htmlKeyboardResponse,
stimulus: '+
',
choices: "NO_KEYS",
trial_duration: 500,
},
// A stimulus and response trial; save to Firestore
{
type: imageKeyboardResponse,
stimulus: 'imgA.png',
data: { saveToFirestore: true },
}
]
```
## Finishing a run
After your experiment is over, you can mark it as completed in Firestore using the `finishRun` method. For example, you can call this method in the [`on_finish` (experiment) callback](https://www.jspsych.org/7.1/overview/events/#on_finish-experiment):
```javascript
initJsPsych({
on_finish: function(data) {
firekit.finishRun();
}
});
```
## Full example
The following is an example jsPsych experiment that implements the NoHotdog assessment while writing data to Cloud Firestore using roar-firekit.
Click to expand!
```javascript
import { initJsPsych } from 'jspsych';
import preload from '@jspsych/plugin-preload';
import htmlKeyboardResponse from '@jspsych/plugin-html-keyboard-response';
import imageButtonResponse from '@jspsych/plugin-image-button-response';
import { RoarAppkit } from '@bdelab/roar-firekit';
import { roarConfig } from "./roarConfig.js";
const taskInfo = {
taskId: 'nhd',
taskName: 'Not Hotdog',
variantName: 'nhd-1block-random',
taskDescription: 'A ROAR demonstration using the hot dog / not hot dog task.',
variantDescription: 'One block, random order',
blocks: [
{
blockNumber: 1,
trialMethod: 'random-without-replacement',
corpus: 'assets',
},
],
};
const minimalUserInfo = { id: 'roar-user-id' };
const firekit = new RoarAppkit({
userInfo: minimalUserInfo,
taskInfo,
config: roarConfig,
});
await firekit.startRun();
const jsPsych = initJsPsych({
on_data_update: function (data) {
if (data.saveToFirestore) {
firekit.writeTrial(data);
}
},
on_finish: function () {
firekit.finishRun();
},
});
// This example assumes that the hot dog / not hot dog images are stored in the
// assets folder.
const numFiles = 30;
const hotDogFiles = Array.from(Array(numFiles), (_, i) => i + 1).map(
(idx) => new URL(`../assets/hotdog/${idx}.jpg`, import.meta.url),
);
const notHotDogFiles = Array.from(Array(numFiles), (_, i) => i + 1).map(
(idx) => new URL(`../assets/nothotdog/${idx}.jpg`, import.meta.url),
);
const allFiles = hotDogFiles.concat(notHotDogFiles);
const allTargets = allFiles.map((url) => {
return { target: url, isHotDog: !url.pathname.includes('nothotdog') };
});
let timeline = [];
/* preload images */
const preloadImages = {
type: preload,
auto_preload: true,
};
timeline.push(preloadImages);
/* define welcome message trial */
const welcome = {
type: htmlKeyboardResponse,
stimulus: 'Welcome to ROAR-HD, a rapid online assessment of hot dog differentiating ability. Press any key to begin.',
};
timeline.push(welcome);
const hotDogTrials = {
timeline: [
{
type: htmlKeyboardResponse,
stimulus: '+
',
choices: 'NO_KEYS',
trial_duration: 500,
},
{
type: imageButtonResponse,
stimulus: jsPsych.timelineVariable('target'),
choices: ['Hot Dog', 'Not a Hot Dog'],
prompt: 'Is this a hot dog?',
data: { saveToFirestore: true },
on_finish: function (data) {
data.correct = jsPsych.timelineVariable('isHotDog') == data.response;
},
},
],
timeline_variables: allTargets,
sample: {
type: 'without-replacement',
size: 20,
},
};
timeline.push(hotDogTrials);
const fixation = {
type: htmlKeyboardResponse,
stimulus: 'You are all done. Thanks!',
choices: 'NO_KEYS',
};
timeline.push(fixation);
jsPsych.run(timeline);
```