Quickstart

Developing with Docker compose

To build a local Docker compose environment:

# Create an environment file based on the sample
$ cp .envs/local/django.sample .envs/local/django

# This command can take quite a while the first time
$ make dockerbuild

Start a local multi-container application with Postgres, Redis, Celery, and Django:

$ make dockerserve

To get a shell into the Django container where you can run ./manage.py createsuperuser, get a Django shell, or run other commands:

$ make dockershell
...
/app # ./manage.py createsuperuser

After setting up your super user account on your local development instance, you’ll still need to set the Set the ad server URL to something like localhost:5000.

Developing locally

Docker compose is the recommended way to do development consistently. This section is more to document steps than to encourage you to develop outside of Docker.

Requirements

  • Python 3.10

  • Nodejs (tested with v14)

Front-end assets

To build the assets:

$ npm clean-install
$ npm run build

Install Python dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements/development.txt
$ pre-commit install            # Install a code style pre-commit hook

Run the server

Run migrations:

$ python manage.py migrate

Create a superuser:

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the server:

$ python manage.py runserver

Running the tests

To run the unit tests:

$ pip install -r requirements/testing.txt
$ make test

Run a specific test:

$ tox -e py3 -- -k <test_name>