This is the server part of the CoLab chat app.

To install the python dependencies run pip install -r requirements.txt Note that you need to create a database with python ./web/manage.py create_db to be able to store user data.

You will also need to install docker and docker-compose. For example on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install docker
sudo apt install docker-compose
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

To start the webserver use colab.py. To run in production mode you can either use ./colab.py or ./colab.py -r prod or ./colab.py --run prod. To run in development mode you can either use ./colab.py -r dev or ./colab.py --run dev. To run in detached mode add -d or --detached. To stop use ./colab.py -s or ./colab.py --stop.

If you don't stop the containers gracefully you may see the error "A broker is already registered on the path /brokers/ids/1." when restarting. This can be fixed by docker-compose kill then bring back up as normal.

The page is served to localhost:80.

Unit tests can be run with ./colab.py -r tests after installing pytest with

pip install pytest

To perform lint checking, run cd web && python manage.py lint.