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Development

PLEASE NOTE

If you want to develop features for the frontend you have to also setup an backend environment. Otherwise if you want to develop features for the backend you don't have to setup a frontend environment. Read more.

Frontend​

Requirements​

Setup​

  1. Clone DatePoll-Frontend from the git repository

    git clone https://gitlab.com/DatePoll/datepoll/datepoll-frontend.git

  2. Install all dependencies

    npm install

  3. ONLY IF YOU WANT TO CREATE PRODUCTION BUILDS OR WORK ON TRANSLATIONS

    Generate language files. Read more about it here.

    warning

    On the first time, translations can take up to 30 minutes.

    Please consider that the translation server hasn't unlimited resources. If it's getting abused it's going to be rate limited. Translated strings are cached to minimize server usage. Don't delete the cache files located in translation/.

    chmod +x ./languages.sh && ./languages.sh

Starting the development server​

ng serve

You can now access DatePoll via a browser under http://localhost:4200.

Good to know

For a fully functional DatePoll development setup you also need a working backend environment.

Backend​

Requirements​

  • Approximately 4GB hard disk space
  • Git
  • Docker Compose 
    sudo apt install docker-compose
  • Docker

Setup​

Good to know

We also need to setup DatePoll-Dockerized.

This ensures we are using a dev environment as close as possible to a production environment. Also we terminate possible bugs and ensure everyone has the same environment.

  1. Clone DatePoll-Dockerized from the git repository 
    git clone https://gitlab.com/DatePoll/datepoll/datepoll-dockerized.git DatePoll-Dockerized
  2. Clone DatePoll-Backend-PHP from the git repository 
    git clone https://gitlab.com/DatePoll/datepoll/datepoll-backend-php.git DatePoll-Backend-PHP
  3. Fill in your own absolute paths to create a working symlink from DatePoll-Backend-PHP/ to DatePoll-Dockerized/code/backend/ 
    ln -s /home/your/path/DatePoll-Backend-PHP/ /home/your/path/DatePoll-Dockerized/code/backend/
  4. Open the DatePoll-Dockerized folder and start all containers. (This can take some time) 
    cd DatePoll-Dockerized/ && sudo docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d
  5. Copy the environment file into place 
    copy ./code/backend/.env.dockerized ./code/backend/.env
  6. Install all required composer libraries and run all database migrations 
    docker-compose exec datepoll-php php /usr/local/bin/composer && docker-compose exec datepoll-php php artisan migrate --force
  7. Run the setup command to set all environment files 
    docker-compose exec datepoll-php php artisan setup-datepoll && docker-compose exec datepoll-php php artisan update-datpoll-db
  8. Add an admin user for the first login. The username and password will be printed to the terminal. 
    docker-compose exec datepoll-php php artisan add-admin-user

You can now access the DatePoll-Backend via a browser under http://localhost:9130 and the API under http://localhost:9130/api.

Only going to develop features for the backend?​

Than you can use pre-build frontend versions. Quickly install the latest frontend production version with

chmod +x ./scripts/* && ./scripts/frontend.sh

or the latest frontend development version with

chmod +x ./scripts/* && ./scripts/frontend.sh -v dev

You can now access the DatePoll frontend via a browser under http://localhost:9110.

success

Congratulations! You have a fully working development environment.

Development server​

Restarting DatePoll-Dockerized​

If you change something in the queue or mail system of DatePoll-Backend-PHP you have to restart all containers.

docker-compose restart

Starting DatePoll-Dockerized​

docker-compose up -d

Stopping DatePoll-Dockerized​

docker-compose down

Building DatePoll-Dockerized​

sudo docker-compose build

Docker container monitoring​

Because it's sometimes really painful to monitor or read log files out of containers I personally recommend to install lazydocker.

Building

Frontend​

Builds are managed with the .gitlab-ci.yml

Production​

Production releases are builded if a commits happen on the master branch. The builds are accessible on releases.datepoll.org/DatePoll/Frontend-Releases.

The latest version is always accessible as this file DatePoll-Frontend-lastest.zip.

On a working DatePoll setup you can update your frontend with this command:

./scripts/frontend.sh

Development​

Development releases are builded if a commits happen on the development branch.

The latest dev version is always accessible as this file DatePoll-Frontend-dev.zip.

On a working DatePoll setup you can update your frontend with this command:

./scripts/frontend.sh -v dev

Manual​

note

Make sure that all language files have been generated. Read more here.

ng build --prod

Backend​

"Builds" are managed with branches in the GitLab Repository.

Because PHP doesn't really build your code before shipping it, the install or update process is a little bit different.

Production​

The production version of the DatePoll-Backend code is always on the master branch of the repository.

On a working DatePoll setup you can update your backend with this command:

./scripts/backend.sh

Development​

The development version of the DatePoll-Backend code is always on the development branch of the repository.

On a working DatePoll setup you can update your backend with this command:

./scripts/backend.sh -v dev