First step is to clone the git repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/cslms/cs-server.git
At this point you might want to create a virtualenv, in order to isolate
Codeschool and its many dependencies from your Python environment. Please
install virtualenvwrapper from pip (pip install virtualenvwrapper) or
from your distribution packages, then execute:
$ virtualenvwrapper.sh $ mkvirtualenv codeschool -p python3 $ workon codeschool
Move to the source tree and install all pip dependencies. This may take a while.
$ cd codeschool $ pip install -e .[dev]
If you want to make any frontend development, the next step should be installing the correct Javascript packages from npm. Codeschool uses Webpack to create "bundles" of web resources. This makes more efficient javascript and CSS and allow us to use a CSS pre-processor (Sass).
You need node.js and npm to make it work:
Debian $ apt-get install nodejs npm Arch linux # pacman -S npm
After you have npm installed, execute:
$ npm install
Codeschool uses redis for cache. Redis must be installed and running before you start codeschool.
Debian $ apt-get install redis-server Arch linux $ redis-server
Codeschool uses invoke to control several aspects of development and deployment. We start with the invoke task:
$ inv develop
This will download the Javascript dependencies, build the necessary bundles with webpack, and then initialize the sqlite3 database. Codeschool is database-agnostic, and you probably want to use a real database server such as Posgres or MySQL in production.
Finally, run the development sever and point your browser to http://localhost:8000:
$ python manage.py makemigrations $ python manage.py migrate $ python manage.py runserver