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1.7 KiB
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61 lines
1.7 KiB
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# Developer's guide
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This guide assume you have some knoweldge of [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks/).
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[TOC]
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## Architecture
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Microblog.pub is a "modern" Python application with "old-school" server-rendered templates.
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- [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) is used for dependency management.
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- Most of the code is asynchronous, using [asyncio](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html).
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- SQLite3 is the default database.
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The server has 3 components:
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- The web server (powered by [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) and [Jinja2](https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/) templates)
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- One process that takes care of sending "outgoing activities"
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- One process that takes care of processing "incoming activities"
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### Tasks
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The project uses [Invoke](https://www.pyinvoke.org/) to manage tasks (a Python powered Makefile).
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You can find the tasks definition in `tasks.py` and list the tasks using:
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```bash
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inv -l
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```
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### Media storage
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The uploads are stored in the `data/` directory, using a simple content-addressed storage (file contents hash is BLOB filename).
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Files metadata are stored in the database.
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## Installation
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Running a local version requires:
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- Python 3.10+
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- SQLite 3.35+
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You can follow the [Python developer version of the install instructions](https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-edition).
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## Documentation
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The documention is managed as Markdown files in `docs/` and the online documentation is built using a homegrown Python script (`scripts/build_docs.py`).
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You can build the documentation locally by running:
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```bash
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inv build-docs
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```
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And check out the result by starting a static server using Python standard library:
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```bash
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cd docs/dist
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python -m http.server 8001
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```
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