Editors' Notes

This Django application runs the Editors' Notes API and authentication server.

Installation

Dependencies

Editors' Notes currently uses Python 3.5.

This project depends on the Python package lxml, which has two dependencies: libxml2, and libxslt1. They can be installed with your OS's package manager.

• Ubuntu/Debian (aptitude): apt install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
• Fedora/RHEL (dnf): dnf install libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
• OSX (homebrew): brew install libxml2 libxslt && brew link libxml2 libxslt

Required services

Editors' Notes uses PostgreSQL (9.4+) and Elasticsearch. Consult the documentation of those applications for installation instructions.

Markup renderer

Text in the Editors' Notes API is a superset of the CommonMark markup standard. In order to to render this text into HTML, this application requires a running Editors' Notes Markup Renderer Server. By default, it will look for it on HTTP port 9393.

Production deployment

See editorsnotes/editorsnotes.org for instructions on how to deploy Editors' Notes on a server using nginx and uWSGI.

Local development environment

1. Run make setup at the project root directory. This will set up a virtual environment for python packages, install all dependencies, make a skeleton configuration file, and collect all necessary static files.

2. Edit the skeleton settings file editorsnotes/settings_local.py with information about your system. The only setting you must fill out is your database configuration.

3. Run make all to execute all database migrations

4. Make sure that the markup renderer server is running

5. Start the development server with ./venv/bin/python manage.py runserver