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Allow all features to work in development #267

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Commits on Apr 2, 2024

  1. Allow search to work in development mode 

    Previously, we were building our Xapian database in our working
directory which meant that, when we mount our working directory over
the one in the container, we're left with no search index.

To allow the search index to persist even with a mounted working
directory, this moves the search index outside the working directory
(using the new SEARCHDB_PATH environment variable).

It also makes the search Make targets more explicit, and moves all the
search connection creation into `backend.util` so that we can change
everything at once in future.
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    SteveMarshall committed Apr 2, 2024
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  2. Allow generated assets to show in development mode 

    In development, we mount our working directory over the one in the
container, meaning that generated assets (like the stats graphs) aren't
accessible. Rather than rebuild them into our working directory, this
adds the version collected during the container build as a last-resort
place to serve them from.

We're only setting this in development mode to avoid having
`collectstatic` (which we run in `live` mode) try to collect assets
from its own target directory.
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