🌐Web Setup

🌟 Introduction

Welcome to the AppFlowy Web project! This project aims to bring the powerful features of AppFlowy to the web. Whether you're a developer looking to contribute or a user eager to try out the latest features, this guide will help you get started.

AppFlowy Web is built with the following technologies:

• React: A JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

• TypeScript: A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

• Bun: A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.

• Nginx: A high-performance web server.

• Docker: A platform to develop, ship, and run applications in containers.

Resource Sharing

To maintain consistency across different platforms, the Web project shares i18n translation files and Icons with the Flutter project. This ensures a unified user experience and reduces duplication of effort in maintaining these resources.

• i18n Translation Files: The translation files are shared to provide a consistent localization experience across both Web and Flutter applications. The path to the translation files is frontend/resources/translations/.

  The translation files are stored in JSON format and contain translations for different languages. The files are named according to the language code (e.g., en.json for English, es.json for Spanish, etc.).

Let's dive in and get the project up and running! 🚀

🛠 Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed on your system:

• Node.js (v18.6.0) 🌳

• pnpm (package manager) 📦

• Jest (testing framework) 🃏

• Cypress (end-to-end testing) 🧪

Clone the Repository

First, clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy.git
cd frontend/appflowy_web_app

Install Dependencies

Install the required dependencies using pnpm:

## ensure you have pnpm installed, if not run the following command
# npm install -g [email protected]

pnpm install

Configure Environment Variables

Create a .env file in the root of the project and add the following environment variables:

AF_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8080
AF_GOTRUE_URL=http://localhost:9999
AF_WS_URL=ws://localhost:8080/ws/v1

Start the Development Server

To start the development server, run the following command:

pnpm run dev

Usage

Access published views (currently we only support viewing web apps this way)

1. Create a .env file in the root of the project and add the following environment variables:

AF_WS_URL=wss://test.appflowy.cloud/ws/v1
AF_BASE_URL=https://beta.appflowy.cloud
AF_GOTRUE_URL=https://beta.appflowy.cloud/gotrue

2. Install CORS Unblock extension in your browser to bypass CORS issues. Chrome

3. Open http://localhost:3000/854ea6c6-84cc-4710-9779-e704d058f92a/Databases-4443c9c8-1488-45b8-b48a-9ebb459672a2 to view the application in your browser.

you can replace the 854ea6c6-84cc-4710-9779-e704d058f92a with the workspace id and Databases-4443c9c8-1488-45b8-b48a-9ebb459672a2 with the publish_name.

Note: if you use local server, you need to replace the AF_WS_URL, AF_BASE_URL and AF_GOTRUE_URL with your local server url in the .env file. And make sure the server is running and you have published the view to your local server.

🚀 Building for Production(Optional)

if you want to run the production build, use the following commands

pnpm run build
pnpm run start

This will start the application in development mode. Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

🧪 Running Tests

Unit Tests

We use Jest for running unit tests. To run the tests, use the following command:

pnpm run test:unit

This will execute all the unit tests in the project and provide a summary of the results. ✅

Components Tests

We use Cypress for end-to-end testing. To run the Cypress tests, use the following command:

pnpm run cypress:open

This will open the Cypress Test Runner where you can run your end-to-end tests. 🧪

Alternatively, to run Cypress tests in the headless mode, use:

pnpm run test:components

Both commands will provide detailed test results and generate a code coverage report.

🔄 Development Workflow

Linting

To maintain code quality, we use ESLint. To run the linter and fix any linting errors, use the following command:

pnpm run lint

🚀 Production Deployment

Our production deployment process is automated using GitHub Actions. The process involves:

1. Setting up an AWS EC2 instance: We use an EC2 instance to host the application.

2. Installing Docker and Docker Compose: Docker is installed on the AWS instance.

3. Configuring SSH Access: SSH access is set up with a user and password.

4. Preparing Project Configuration: We configure Dockerfile, nginx.conf, and server.cjs in the web project.

5. Using GitHub Actions: We use the easingthemes/ssh-deploy@main action to deploy the project to the remote server.

The deployment steps include building the Docker image and running the Docker container with the necessary port mappings:

docker build -t appflowy-web-app .
docker rm -f appflowy-web-app || true
docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 --name appflowy-web-app appflowy-web-app

The Web server runs on Bun. For more details about Bun, please refer to the Bun documentation.