platal2

This repository hosts the next generation of plat/al, Polytechnique.org's PLATform for ALumni.

It is intended as a brand new, clean redesign of the main site:

• A clean backend accessed through a REST API
• A new, full-browser UI built upon React.js (to be confirmed)

The final design should be built around the following components:

• A main SQL database
• A cache (likely Redis)
• A search engine (likely ElasticSearch)
• A Django-based backend, exposing an API through django-rest-framework
• A full UI, using Backbone.js, Flux and React.js

Code layout

• backend/ contains the backend project
• ui/ contains the JS parts
• docs/ include the documentation, built using Sphinx.

Install

For the API:

• Install Python3.4
• Create a virtualenv: pyvenv ~/dev/venvs/platal2
• Enter it: . ~/dev/venvs/platal2
• Install requirements: cd backend; make install-deps
• Adapt example_settings.ini into a local_settings.ini suitable to access the production database
• Setup the Django part: ./manage.py syncdb
• Start it up! ./manage.py runserver

For the UI:

• Install nodejs
• Enter the UI directory: cd ui
• Install the dependencies: make install-deps
• Compile the project: make build
• Run the UI: make runserver
• In order for the UI to be able to fetch data, open https://platal2-demo.polytechnique.org/auth/login/?next=/api/ and login there

License

• The UI is distributed under a yet-to-be-defined license, likely GPLv3
• The API code is distributed under the AGPL license.