Chrome Platform Status

chromestatus.com

Get the code

git clone --recursive https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard

Installation

First, install the Google App Engine SDK for Python.

You'll also need pip, node, npm, and gulp:

npm install -g bower gulp
npm install

This will also pull down bower_components and run gulp to build the site.

Developing

To start the main server and the notifier backend, run:

./scripts/start_server.sh

Add env_vars.yaml

Create a file named env_vars.yaml in the root directory and fill it with:

env_variables:
  DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: 'settings'
  FIREBASE_SERVER_KEY: <SERVER_KEY>
  DJANGO_SECRET: <django_key>

The FIREBASE_SERVER_KEY is the Firebase server key obtained from the Firebase console. The DJANGO_SECRET should be a unique value (e.g. an UUID), and if possible maintained across deployments.

FCM setup

If you want to test push notification features, you'll need to create a file named .fcm_server_key in the main project root. Copy in the FCM server key obtained from the Firebase console.

When ./scripts/start_server.sh is run, it will populate this value as an environment variable.

Notes

• Locally, the /feature list pulls from prod (https://www.chromestatus.com/features.json). Opening one of the features will 404 because the entry is not actually in the local db. If you want to test local entries, modify templates/features.html to pull locally and add some db entries by signing in to the app (bottom link). Make sure to check the "sign in as admin" box when doing so. Note that you can also simply go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ instead of localhost to pull locally.

Blink components

Chromestatus gets the list of Blink components from a separate app running on Firebase. See source.

Seed the blink component owners

Visit http://localhost:8080/admin/blink/populate_blink to see the list of Blink component owners.

Debugging / settings

settings.py contains a list of globals for debugging and running the site locally.

VULCANIZE - False, will run the site without vulcanizing the Polymer elements.

SEND_EMAIL - False will turn off email notifications to feature owners.

SEND_PUSH_NOTIFICATIONS - False will turn off sending push notifications for all users.

Deploying

Note you need to have admin privileges on the cr-status cloud project to be able to deploy the site.

Run the helper script:

./scripts/deploy_site.sh <YYYY-MM-DD>

Where <YYYY-MM-DD> is today's date, which will be used as the deployment's version number. This will build the site and deploy it to GAE.

Lastly, open the Google Developer Console and flip to the new version by selecting from the list and clicking MIGRATE TRAFFIC. Make sure to do this for both the 'default' service as well as for the 'notifier' service.

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Google Inc. All rights reserved.

Apache2 License.