mobilizon/support/guides/development/development.md

Development

Clone the repo, and start the project through Docker. You'll need both Docker and Docker-Compose.

git clone https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon && cd mobilizon
make

Manual

• Install dependencies:
  • Elixir (and Erlang) by following the instructions at https://elixir-lang.github.io/install.html
  • PostgreSQL with PostGIS
  • Install NodeJS (we guarantee support for the latest LTS and later)
• Start services:
  • Start postgres
• Setup services:
  • Make sure the postgis extension is installed on your system.
  • Create a postgres user with database creation capabilities, using the following: createuser -d -P mobilizon and set mobilizon as the password.
• Install packages
  • Fetch backend Elixir dependencies with mix deps.get.
  • Go into the cd js directory, yarn install and then back cd ../
• Setup

  • Create your database with mix ecto.create.

  • Create the postgis extension on the database with a postgres user that has superuser capabilities: psql mobilizon_dev

    create extension if not exists postgis;

  • Run migrations: mix ecto.migrate.

• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server. The client development server will also automatically be launched and will reload on file change.

Now you can visit localhost:4000 in your browser and see the website (server and client) in action.

Docker

You need to install the latest supported Docker and Docker-Compose before using the Docker way of installing Mobilizon.

Just run :

make start

to build and launch a database container and an API container running on localhost.