CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to Layup List

Our issues page has some ideas for buxfixes and feature improvements (though you aren't limited to this list).

To contribute code, make a pull request. Github has a great guide for how you can go about doing this.

Feel free to email support@layuplist.com if you need any help.

Local Setup (macOS or OS X)

Installation

• Use Python 2.7.16

• Install Homebrew, node.js, and Postgres (we recommend Postgres.app with their CLI Tools).

• Install the Heroku CLI. You don't need a Heroku account, they just offer good tools for configuration.

• Install Redis using brew install redis.

• We use yuglify to compress the static files. Install using sudo npm install -g yuglify.

• Install forego using brew install forego. This is used to run the server.

• Run easy_install pip if you do not have pip.

• Run pip install virtualenv if you do not have virtualenv.

• Run virtualenv venv to create a Python virtual environment.

• Run createdb layuplist.

• Clone the main repository. git clone https://github.com/layuplist/layup-list.git.

• Create a .env file in the root directory of the repository (fill out the items in brackets):

  DATABASE_URL=postgres://[YOUR_USERNAME]@localhost:5432/layuplist
  REDIS_URL=redis://[YOUR_USERNAME]@localhost:6379
  SECRET_KEY=[SOME_LONG_RANDOM_STRING]
  DEBUG=True
  CURRENT_TERM=20X
  OFFERINGS_THRESHOLD_FOR_TERM_UPDATE=100

• Run source ./scripts/dev/environment.sh to set up the heroku development environment.

• Run source ./scripts/dev/virtualize.sh to activate the virtual environment.

• Install Python dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt.

• Initialize the database with python manage.py migrate.

Developing

Note: Every time you start up a new Terminal window or tab, you need to run both of the below commands. You already ran them above, but if you close your terminal and want to work on this project again later, you must run them again.

source ./scripts/dev/environment.sh
source ./scripts/dev/virtualize.sh

You will also need to have Postgres and Redis running. Do this by opening Postgres.app or running redis-server.

After you have completed all the steps in Local Setup, you can start the development server by running:

python manage.py collectstatic        # create static files
forego start                          # run the server

You may need to run the second command multiple times while developing, mostly if you are working with the front-end. I run this whenever I start the server:

echo 'yes' | python manage.py collectstatic; forego start;

After running forego start you can navigate to your browser and visit http://localhost:5000 to see your local version of Layup List.

Populating Initial Data

Open the Django shell using python manage.py shell and run

from scripts import crawl_and_import_data
crawl_and_import_data()

This will crawl the timetable and medians for data to use during development. By default, this does not crawl the ORC, as that takes a long time. If you would like to crawl the ORC, you can run crawl_and_import_data(include_orc=True) instead.

Setting Up An Account

After successfully running the server, you can create an user account by signing up through the website. You won't receive a confirmation email, so you have the activate the account through the Django shell. Open the Django shell using python manage.py shell and run the following code:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
u = User.objects.last()  # last created user
u.is_active = True
u.save()

If you'd like to have access to the admin panel at /admin, also run these before u.save():

u.is_staff = True
u.is_admin = True

Linting code and Running Tests

We offer two scripts, ./scripts/dev/lint.sh and ./scripts/dev/test.sh that you should run occasionally during development. You may need to pip install pep8.

Stack

Languages: Python, Javascript (JSX enabled), HTML, CSS

Frameworks and Services: Django, Postgres, Heroku, SendGrid, jQuery, Bootstrap, d3.js, Node.js