Getting started

Before starting, make sure you have Python 3.11 or newer and Node.js 20 available.

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

# Install frontend packages once
cd frontend && npm install

Start the backend and frontend in separate terminals from the project root:

uv run bin/run

uv run bin/run-frontend

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 uv run bin/run-frontend. 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