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Couchers.org app

Note: If you have any trouble with this, send Aapeli a message on Slack. He's more than happy to spend a bit of time helping you set things up!

To run the app locally, you need to do four things:

  1. Get the code, navigate to the app folder and install docker and docker-compose
  2. Compile the protocol buffers
  3. Launch the backend with docker-compose
  4. Install and launch the frontend with yarn

Note for Windows users

We suggest you use WSL2, it lets you run Linux and docker much easier. Install WSL2 and clone the repo there. This will save you a lot of time and avoid lots of issues!

1. Get the code, navigate to the app folder and install docker and docker-compose

To get the code onto your machine, clone the git respository from GitHub with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/Couchers-org/couchers.git

Open a command line or terminal, and navigate to the app folder (where this readme.md is), for example with cd couchers/app.

Install docker from https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/.

Install docker-compose from https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/.

2. Compile the protocol buffers

macOS, Linux or WSL2

If you are on macoS, Linux or WSL2, run the following command:

docker run --rm -w /app -v $(pwd):/app couchers/grpc ./generate_protos.sh

An alternative on macOS is to install the tools locally with brew install grpc protoc-gen-grpc-web, then run ./generate_protos.sh.

Windows

If you are on Windows (without WSL2), run the following command:

docker run --rm -w /app -v %cd%:/app couchers/grpc sh -c "cat generate_protos.sh | dos2unix | sh"

3. Launch the backend with docker-compose

In the app folder, run the following command:

docker-compose up --build

This will build the backend, database, and proxy, and start them up.

4. Install and launch the frontend with yarn

Navigate to the app/frontend folder, and run the following commands to start the frontend:

yarn install
yarn start

This will take a moment, after which you can go to http://localhost:3000/, and you should see the app there. The command might also open the page for you automatically.