Getting started
Before starting, make sure you have mise installed. It manages Python, Node, uv and prek.
mise install
prek install
uv run manage.py migrate
cp .env-default .env
uv run manage.py seed_demo_data
# Optional: create an admin login
uv run manage.py createsuperuser
Start the backend and frontend in separate terminals from the project root:
mise run server
mise run frontend-run
Vite prints the frontend URL when it starts (normally http://localhost:5173/; if that port is busy, it selects another). Django runs at http://localhost:3000/; open the admin directly at http://localhost:3000/admin/ or through the frontend dev proxy at the printed Vite URL followed by /admin/. The GraphQL API is at http://localhost:3000/graphql/; the frontend uses Vite's proxy for development API requests.
To test the frontend against a different backend, set VITE_DEV_API_PROXY when starting Vite, for example VITE_DEV_API_PROXY=https://bbs.neuf.no mise run frontend-run. This affects the development proxy only; use caution with a live backend, since app changes and submissions may modify production data.
To create the admin during data seeding instead, set BBS_SEED_ADMIN_PASSWORD for that command; the command only creates a local admin superuser if one does not already exist.
Testing
mise run test
References
- We use JS code generation to work with queries/mutations in our graphql API: https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-typed-document-node
TODO-old
- Larger pictures
- Compact GUI for max 768 vertical pixels
- Search right of in title