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Team communication for software companies

Primary LanguageElixirApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Level CircleCI

The communication platform for software teams.

Deploy

Development Environment

You'll need to install the following dependencies first:

Run the bootstrap script to install the remaining dependencies and create your development database:

cd level
script/bootstrap

If your local PostgreSQL install does not have a default postgres user, define the LEVEL_DB_USERNAME and LEVEL_DB_PASSWORD environment variables first in your shell environment:

export LEVEL_DB_USERNAME=xxx
export LEVEL_DB_PASSWORD=yyy

Then run the bootstrap script again.

Use the script/server command to start up your local server and visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Node.js

This repository includes a .nvmrc file targeting a specific version of Node that is known the be compatibile with all current node dependencies. Things might work with a newer version of Node, but the most guaranteed route is to install Node Version Manager and run nvm install from the project root.

Then, be sure to run script/bootstrap to install node dependencies with the correct version of node.

Elm

Much of the front-end is powered by Elm. The Elm code lives in the assets/elm/src directory and the corresponding test files live in the assets/elm/tests directory.

To run the Elm test suite, execute script/elm-test from the project root.

When you install a new Elm package dependency, make sure you also add the same dependency in the tests directory (the tests maintain their own set of dependencies):

# Install in the main elm package file
cd assets
./node_modules/.bin/elm-package install [package name]

# Install in the tests elm package file
cd tests
../node_modules/.bin/elm-package install [package name]

Routing

Level uses subdomains to keep track of which space you are viewing. There are a variety of different techniques for configuring a local TLD to point at localhost. One option is to edit your /etc/hosts file with something like this to make the Phoenix app available at http://launch.level.test:4000:

127.0.0.1  launch.level.test     # required
127.0.0.1  yourspace.level.test  # need an entry like this for every space you create

Caveat: The hosts file approach does not support wildcard subdomains, so you will have to add a new entry every time you create a new space. That's a pain.

Dnsmasq is a handy utility that can be used to forward all .test requests to localhost. Follow these instructions to set it up on macOS.

Documentation

To generate and view low-level API documentation locally, run the following script:

script/docs

Copyright

©️ 2018 Derrick Reimer

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.