Public Health Schweiz

Website of the Swiss Society for Public Health

Development environment

The easiest way to set up your machine would be to use Vagrant, then in the project folder in the terminal type:

vagrant liverun

Backend setup

After installing Python 3, from the project folder:

sudo apt-get install python3-venv python3-dev libjpeg-dev
pyvenv env
. env/bin/activate

pip install -U pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser

You will be asked a few questions to create an administrator account.

Frontend setup

Make sure a recent version of node.js is installed, then:

npm install -g bower grunt-cli
npm install
bower install

If you have one installed, also start your local redis server (service redis start).

Starting up

Run this after completing setup:

./manage.py runserver &
grunt browser-sync

A default browser should open pointing to the default home page.

Now access the admin panel with the user account you created earlier: http://localhost:3000/admin/

Troubleshooting

• Issues with migrating database tables in SQLite during development? Try ./manage.py migrate --fake

Production notes

We suggest using Docker or Dokku for automated deployment. There is a Makefile to help set up and manage the instance.

• Initial setup: make setup
• Startup: make run-detached
• Release: make release