decomp.me/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Directory structure

frontend/
  public/        ; Static files
  src/           ; React/Typescript sourcecode

backend/
  compilers/     ; Compiler binaries and configuration
  coreapp/       ; API Django app
    migrations/  ; Database migrations (generated by Django)
  decompme/      ; Main Django app

.env             ; Default configuration
.env.local       ; Local configuration overrides (not checked-in)

Setup

See DOCKER.md for instructions on how to run the project in a Docker container. Otherwise, continue reading this guide.

Dependencies:

• Python >=3.9
• Node.js >=14
• Yarn
• Poetry

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Create a file to hold environment variables:

touch .env.local

Backend

cd backend

• Install Python dependencies with poetry

poetry install

• Install compilers

poetry run python compilers/download.py

• Set up the database

poetry run python manage.py migrate

• Start the API server

poetry run python manage.py runserver

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Frontend

cd frontend

• Install dependencies

yarn

• Start the development webserver

yarn dev

• Access the site via http://localhost:8080

Optional steps

• Configure vscode for development
• Configure wine for Windows compiler on Linux
• Set up GitHub authentication
• Install nsjail to run the compiler sandbox
• Configure an nginx reverse proxy
• Download wibo and add it to your system path (for running Windows compilers from Linux)

Notes

Updating the database

If you modify any database models (models.py), you'll need to run the following to update the database:

poetry run python manage.py makemigrations
poetry run python manage.py migrate

### Frontend styling

We use Tailwind CSS with Radix UI colors. Each color is on a scale from 1 to 12 (inclusive), each with a well-defined meaning.

Linting

• Check frontend

cd frontend
yarn lint

• Autofix frontend

cd frontend
yarn lint --fix

• Check backend

cd backend
poetry run mypy
poetry run black .