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README.md
book-tracker
An attempt at a viable alternative to Goodreads (currently lacking a name—ideas welcome!)
Important Links
- Project Scope
- Features we feel are essential to the project. Anything beyond the scope should be discussed for later and not prioritized.
- Dependencies Stack
- A list of dependencies used in the project and a short explanation of what each of them are for.
- Contrubution Guidelines
- Subject to change but important to follow. Includes a basic code of conduct.
- Project chat via Gitter
- Real-time discussion about the project.
- Issue Tracker
- For adding and tracking feature requests, feedback, and bug reports.
- Main Repo on GitLab
- Where all changes are made "official".
- Mirror Repo on GitHub
- Gets changes from GitLab pushed to it so people who prefer GitHub can contribute there as well. Pull requests and issues created here will also be addressed.
Development
Installation
To develop, you'll need to know how to use a terminal or shell on your computer.
Clone the repo to your computer with Git by running:
git clone https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/book-tracker.git
Then run use Yarn to install the dependencies:
yarn
Alternatively, you can use the NPM that's included with Node:
npm install
This install process will compile the sass into CSS at public/css/index.css
after the dependencies are installed.
In the future, this postinstall process will also set up the database tables.
Usage
After everything's installed, run the "start" NPM script to build and serve the front end:
npm start
Included in the start
process is the sass compilation process again, so if you'd like to skip that process each time
you start the server, you can instead use the start-server
process like this:
npm run start-server
Then use your browser to navigate to http://localhost:1234 to view the website.
When you make a change, you need to stop the server with Ctrl+C
and re-run the script.
It's early days, so this segment will definitely change later as the project gets more complex.
Production
This is totally not yet ready, but I want to use this space to block out what how I would like the installation process to go for people installing the app.
Requirements
- NodeJS v8.14+
- NPM v6.4.1+
- NGINX
- PostgreSQL 11+
Recommendations
- Use a Debian 9 server for stability. Ubuntu should also work just fine.
- Use the default apt packages for the requirements
- Use Git to download the project for installation and easy upgrading
Installation
Here's a step-by-step installation process so you can get a grasp of what you need to do from a brand new Debian 9 installation (not included in steps). Ubuntu installation should be more or less exactly the same.
Step 1: Install Requirements
Install the requirements with the following commands (note: you may need to use sudo
for each of these commands):
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nodejs nginx postgres-11
And optionally (but recommended):
sudo apt install git
Follow any instructions during each of the installations to get the programs set up correctly.
NGINX may require additional setup, so check through this page for different things that might be good to do.
PostgreSQL will need a database created, so do that and make a user that can access it that's not the root user.
Step 2: Download the Project
You can set up the project folder in any location on your server, but these instructions will set it up in the current user's home folder using Git like so:
cd ~
git clone https://gitlab.com/Alamantus/book-tracker.git && cd book-tracker
This will download the entire project source code into a book-tracker
folder.
Step 3: Configure the Project
Next, There are some configurations you need to set up. Rename the config.example.json
to config.json
like so:
mv config.example.json config.json
And edit its contents with the correct data for your server using your text editor of choice. Here is what
the config.example.json
looks like with some explanations of each field:
{
"port": 3000 # the port that the server will serve the app from.
"dbhost": "localhost" # Where the postgres server is
"dbport": 5432 # What port the postgres server uses
"dbname": "book-tracker" # The name of the database book-tracker will use to make tables and store data in
"dbuser": "root" # The username with access to your postgres database
"dbpass": "password" # The password for the username above
... # more to come
}
Step 4: Install the Project
You will then need to install the project.
sudo npm install
This will install all of the dependencies, compile all of the Sass into usable CSS, set up the database and tables in PostgreSQL, and do any other things that need to be done to get the project set up and usable.
Step 5: Run it!
Run the following to start the server:
sudo npm start
Then it'll be running on your server's localhost at the port you specified in the config!
Step 6: Set up an NGINX reverse proxy
Set up a reverse proxy to your localhost:proxy. This'll have to get filled in later.