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Development Setup
Summary
This chapter helps you get an installation of Kitsune up and running.
If you have any problems getting Kitsune running, let us know. See :ref:`contact-us-chapter`.
Getting up and running
To get Kitsune running locally all you really need is to have Docker and Docker Compose installed, and follow the following steps.
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Fork this repository & clone it to your local machine.
git clone https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune.git
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Create a
.env
file (if one doesn't already exist).make .env
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Pull base Kitsune Docker images, install node packages and build the Webpack bundle, and create your database. On non-Apple silicon:
make init
On Apple silicon (M1, M2):
make init-mac
Then:
make build
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Run Kitsune.
make run
This will produce a lot of output (mostly warnings at present). When you see the following the server will be ready:
web_1 | Starting development server at http://0.0.0.0:8000/ web_1 | Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
The running instance will be located at http://localhost:8000/ unless you specified otherwise, and the administrative control panel will be at http://localhost:8000/admin/.
Another way you might choose to run the app (step 3 above) is by getting a shell in the container and then manually running the Django dev server from there. This should make frequent restarts of the server a lot faster and easier if you need to do that:
make runshell
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
The end result of this method should be the same as using make run
, but will potentially aid in debugging
and act much more like developing without Docker as you may be used to. You should use make runshell
here
instead of make shell
as the latter does not bind port 8000 which you need to be able to load the site.
Run make help
to see other helpful commands.
Then you can run the Webpack build with instant reloading through browser-sync:
npm start
The running instance in this case will be located at http://localhost:3000/.
Further setup
Admin interface
After the above you can do some optional steps if you want to use the admin:
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Enable the admin control panel
echo "ENABLE_ADMIN=True" >> .env
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Create a superuser
docker-compose exec web ./manage.py createsuperuser
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Create a profile for this user
$ ./manage.py shell_plus In [1]: u = User.objects.get(username="superuser") In [2]: Profile(user=u).save()
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Log in to the admin panel: http://localhost:8000/admin
Enable development login
If you need to log in as a normal user,
add ENABLE_DEV_LOGIN=True
to your .env
file.
You can create a normal user like so:
docker-compose exec web ./manage.py shell_plus
In [1]: u = User(username="foobar")
In [2]: u.save()
In [3]: Profile(user=u).save()
You can then log in as that user by visiting: http://localhost:8000/user/foobar/become
Install Sample Data
We include some sample data to get you started. You can install it by
running this command::
docker-compose exec web ./manage.py generatedata
Get AAQ working
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Add a product with a slug matching one of the product values in
kitsune/questions/config.py
. You can do this through the admin interface at/admin/products/product/add/
.For instance, with a
config.py
value like:"name": _lazy("Firefox"), "product": "firefox",
Create a product in the admin interface with its
slug
set tofirefox
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Add a topic matching a category from that product config, and associate it with the product you just created. You can do this through the admin interface at
/admin/products/topic/add/
.For instance, with a category with a
config.py
value like:"topic": "download-and-install",
Create a topic in the admin interface with its
slug
set todownload-and-install
and its product set to the product you just created. -
Finally add an AAQ locale for that product. You can do this through the admin interface at
/admin/questions/questionlocale/add/
.
Get search working
First, make sure you have run the "Install Sample Data" step above, or have entered data yourself through the admin interface.
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Enter into the web container
docker-compose exec web bash
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Build the indicies
./manage.py es_init && ./manage.py es_reindex
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Now, exit from web's bash shell
exit
!!! note "Search"
If after running these commands, search doesn't seem to be working,
make sure you're not running any ad-blocking extensions in your browser.
They may be blocking the `analytics.js` script which search depends on.
Install linting tools
Kitsune uses pre-commit for linting. Install it globally, or in a venv, outside of the docker container with:
pip install pre-commit
Then set up its git pre-commit hook:
$ pre-commit install
After this, every time you commit, pre-commit will check your changes for style problems. To run it manually you can use the command:
$ pre-commit run
which will run the checks for only your changes, or if you want to run the lint checks for all files:
$ pre-commit run --all-files
For more details see the pre-commit docs.
Product Details Initialization
!!! note
One of the packages Kitsune uses, ``product_details``, needs to fetch
JSON files containing historical Firefox version data and write them
within its package directory. To set this up, run this command to do
the initial fetch:
```bash
docker-compose exec web ./manage.py update_product_details
```
Using Django Debug Toolbar
Django Debug Toolbar provides some very useful information when debugging various things in Django, especially slow running SQL queries.
To enable it, ensure DEBUG
and USE_DEBUG_TOOLBAR
are enabled in .env
:
DEBUG=True
USE_DEBUG_TOOLBAR=True
Running the tests
Running the test suite is easy:
./bin/run-unit-tests.sh
For more information, see the test documentation.