Running the code

We use Docker and Docker Compose.

You can use the Docker Compose setup if you are using one of the following:

• Linux (64bit)
• OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 or higher
• Windows 10 Pro or higher

If you are not using one of those, then try the Vagrant + Docker Compose setup.

Linux

Install Docker CE.

And make sure you have Docker Compose (at least version 1.6.0) installed too (often comes with Docker).

If you cannot connect to Docker with your local user, then you may want to add yourself to the Docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

# then either log in again to reload the groups
# or run (for each shell...)
su - $USER

# should now be able to connect without errors
docker info

Then:

git clone git@gitlab.com:foodsharing-dev/foodsharing.git foodsharing
cd foodsharing
./scripts/start

OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 or higher

Install Docker for Mac (direct link).

Then:

git clone git@gitlab.com:foodsharing-dev/foodsharing.git foodsharing
cd foodsharing
./scripts/start

Windows 10 Pro or higher

Install Docker for Windows (direct link) and Git for Windows.

There is a graphical user interface to administrate the repo, which is recommended for Git beginners.

But you can use the Git Bash shell just like in Linux to clone it:

git clone git@gitlab.com:foodsharing-dev/foodsharing.git foodsharing

To start the containers, use the Git Bash shell:

cd foodsharing
./scripts/start

Known Issues on Windows

• Changes in js, vue etc. aren't showing up

In order to have the webpack-dev-server recognize changes you have to add this watchOptions block to client/serve.config.js

[...]
module.exports = {
  [...]
  devServer: {
    watchOptions: {
      poll: true
    },
    [...]

Note: Please make sure not to commit this file afterwards with your changes.

Vagrant

If you cannot use any of the above methods, then this should work with every common operation system.

However, we are less familiar with this solution, so we may be less able to support you.

Install VirtualBox and Vagrant.

Then:

git clone git@gitlab.com:foodsharing-dev/foodsharing.git foodsharing
cd foodsharing
vagrant up

Daily work

vagrant up starts the machine and foodsharing project.

vagrant halt stops the virtual machine.

vagrant ssh connects to the virtual machine.

Once connected to the virtual machine, go to /vagrant with cd /vagrant. This is where the foodsharing folder is mounted in the VM. From there on, you can run all scripts with ./scripts/NAME.

Note: ./scripts/start will always be executed, when you start the virtual machine with vagrant up.

There is a known bug when running VirtualBox + nginx that nginx serves files from a memory cache. If you encounter this problem, then it can probably be fixed by emptying the memory cache with sync; sudo sh -c "/bin/echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" or even running this every second with watch -n 1 'sync; sudo sh -c "/bin/echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"'.