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In order to have get started with developing hypha locally, you'll need these minimal setup, the setup may vary slightly for your base operating systems.

System Dependencies

Make sure you have these things installed on your system:

  • Git – Installation Guide
  • Python 3.11.x
  • Node 18.x
  • PostgreSQL 14.x (with libpq-dev on Linux)

Info

On Linux install them with your normal package manager. On macOS Homebrew is an excellent option. For Windows Chocolatey seems popular but we have no experience with Windows.

This project ships with .python-version and .nvmrc to support pyenv and nvm. You can use it to setup the correct versions of Python and Node required for this project.

Get Source Code

Use git to fetch the code, this will create a hypha/ directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/HyphaApp/hypha.git hypha

Now, create some local directories.

$ cd hypha
$ mkdir -p var/log media

NOTE: In production media is stored on AWS S3 but for local development you need a "media" directory. The var/log is used to store local logs, if configured.

OBS! Everything from now on will happen inside the hypha/ directory.

Install project dependencies

Create and activate python virtual environment:

$ python -m venv venv/
$ source venv/bin/activate

Install Python & Node packages:

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
$ npm install

Compile JS & SCSS

Build all JS/CSS assets for development:

$ npm run dev:build

Info

Hypha uses NodeJS to compile SCSS and JS from the hypha/static_src/ directory. See the package.json file for a complete list of commands.

Add/Update Configuration

Hypha supports configuration via either a local.py or a .env file:

Create an empty .env file at the root of the project:

.
├── .env
├── manage.py
├── hypha
│   ├── urls.py
│   ├── settings/
│   ├── ...
├── ...

Open .env file and add your config:

./.env
ALLOWED_HOSTS=apply.hypha.test,hypha.test
BASE_URL=http://hypha.test
SECRET_KEY=<put-in-long-random-string>
DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost/hypha

Copy the provided local.py.example file and rename it to local.py.

$ cp -p hypha/settings/local.py.example hypha/settings/local.py

.
├── manage.py
├── hypha
│   ├── urls.py
│   ├── settings
│   │   ├── __init__.py
│   │   ├── base.py
│   │   ├── dev.py
│   │   ├── django.py
│   │   ├── local.py
│   │   ├── local.py.example
│   │   ├── production.py
│   │   └── test.py
│   ├── ...
├── ...

Open and take a look at the local.py, it already has some sensible defaults and you can use this to override all the settings.

Setup Database and Initial Data

Create an empty database:

$ createdb hypha

Ensure database name hypha is added to your hypha/settings/local.py or .env.

Let's create all the tables and schemas required by the project.

There are two ways to about it, you can either load demo data from /public/sandbox_db.dump or start with empty tables.

To load demo data run:

$ pg_restore --verbose --clean  --if-exists --no-acl --no-owner \
             --dbname=hypha public/sandbox_db.dump

It's not always completely up to date so run:

$ python manage.py migrate

Create the cache tables.

$ python manage.py createcachetable

Run all migrations to set up the database tables.

$ python manage.py migrate

Tips

  • If createdband dropdb are not available you will need to add the Postgres bin directory to your path or call the commands with complete path.
  • If you need to delete/drop the database, you can use $ dropdb hypha

  • On Linux you might need to run as the "postgres" user first when setting up Postgres. Use it to create the database and set up a database user.For local development I suggest creating a user with the same name as your account, then you will not need to specify it on every command.

    $ su - postgres
$ createdb hypha
$ createuser [your-account-name]

Setup Sites

You will need two domain to run this app, used to serve the public and apply site on different domains

First, add these sites to the database:

$ python manage.py wagtailsiteupdate hypha.test apply.hypha.test 9001

Then, add this to your /etc/hosts file.

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 hypha.test
127.0.0.1 apply.hypha.test

Here we are setting the public site be served at http://hypha.test:9001 and apply site to http://apply.hypha.test:9001.

Is it safe to use .test?

The ".test" TLD is safe to use, it's reserved for testing purposes. Feel free to use another name but then remember to use it in all the commands below.

Create Login credentials

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Run Development Server

$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:9001 --settings=hypha.settings.dev

Alternatively, you can also use $ make serve-django

Now you should be able to access the sites:

  1. Public Site: http://hypha.test:9001/
  2. Apply Site: http://apply.hypha.test:9001/

Documentation

To live preview of documentation, while you writing it.

Activate your virtual environment and install dependencies:

$ source venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Run: 

$ make serve-docs

Open http://localhost:9100/ to preview the documentation site.

Tip

You can use $ make serve command to run Django Development Server, watch and compile frontend changes and preview docs all at once.

Coding Style

Hypha's coding style is enforced by black, ruff and prettier and comes pre-configured with prettier.

Install pre-commit to auto-format the code before each commit:

pre-commit install

Running tests

Hypha uses ruff and py.test test runner and uses hypha/settings/testing.py for test settings. For frontend code, stylelint and eslint is used.

Run the test with:

$ make test

For lint the code and not run the full test suite you can use:

$ make lint

Helpful URLs

Use the email address and password you set in the createsuperuser step above to login.

Last update: 2023-09-30