My Workshop

A decentralized application to create and share your project documentation.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This project is at a very early stage of development: It can evolve dramatically at the next commits!

Features

• Generates beautiful documentation for your projects;
• Provides a laboratory notebook to document your experiments;
• Simplifies the management of your workshop, your fab lab or your makerspace.

Powered by My Workshop

• My Workshop Project (https://myworkshopproject.com)
• L'atelier partagé (https://docs.latelierpartage.fr)

Installation

Requirements

• Docker: we use Docker to develop and run My Workshop. This is a strict requirement to use this project.
• Docker Compose: we use Docker Compose to simplify the orchestration of all My Workshop application services, using configuration files for different environments (such as dev, test, staging or prod).

Download this repository and unzip it on your computer. You should rename the folder myworkshop-main in myworkshop.

Or clone the repository directly on your computer:

$ git clone git@github.com:myworkshopproject/myworkshop.git

Quickstart

To start the demo application, please run:

$ docker-compose up

Or if the make application is available on your operating system:

$ make quickstart

Wait a bit for the application to build, then you can access it with your favorite internet browser at the address http://localhost:8080/.

There may be a conflict if port 8080 on your machine is already in use. In this case, you can change it with the following command with a suitable port number:

$ NGINX_HOST_PORT=8080 docker-compose up

Install and run a development environment

My Workshop stores config in environment variables. When using Docker Compose to run My Workshop, the .env file is used to define all required environment variables. You should never edit this .env file directly or store sensitive information in it, but you can override one or more of these variables by defining them directly in the shell before launching docker compose (values in the shell take precedence over those specified in the .env file.).

Once you have customized your environment variables, you can build and start a development environment with the following command:

$ make dev

This previous command builds all the required services for development and starts them all except the core web server and workers.

To start the Django web server, please open a terminal in the container:

$ make shell-core

Then run:

(core) $ make venv
(core) $ make install-dev
(core) $ make migrations
(core) $ make migrate
(core) $ make populate-db
(core) $ make createsuperuser
(core) $ make runserver

To start a Celery worker in another core container, please run:

(core) $ make worker

Frontend assets (Elm, JavaScript, CSS files, etc.) are built using webpack. To make the dev easier, the development environment provides a Node.js Docker container.

To start the frontend dev environment, please open a terminal in the dedicated container:

$ make shell-frontend

Then run:

(frontend) $ npm install
(frontend) $ npm run build

Exposed ports when using Docker Compose to run My Workshop

port	service	environment variable	mode	description
8080	reverse-proxy	NGINX_HOST_PORT	all	NGINX server (My Workshop entry point)
15672	broker	RABBITMQ_MANAGEMENT_HOST_PORT	all	RabbitMQ management and monitoring
5432	db	POSTGRES_HOST_PORT_DEV	dev only	PostgreSQL server
5672	broker	RABBITMQ_HOST_PORT_DEV	dev only	RabbitMQ server
8000	core	CORE_HOST_PORT_DEV	dev only	Django dev server

Install and run a production environment

Regarding production deployment, when you deploy the different services independently, you must define a number of environment variables. For example, for core and worker services, be sure to set the following variables:

DEBUG=False
ALLOWED_HOSTS=example.com
SITE_NAME=My Workshop
MEDIA_ROOT=/path/to/media/
LANGUAGE_CODE=en
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=********
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=admin
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=********
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL=admin@example.com

POSTGRES_HOST=postgres.example.com
POSTGRES_PORT=5432
POSTGRES_DB=myworkshop
POSTGRES_USER=user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=********

RABBITMQ_HOST=rabbitmq.example.com
RABBITMQ_PORT=5672
RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_VHOST=myworkshop
RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER=user
RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS=********

EMAIL_HOST=smtp.example.com
EMAIL_PORT=587
EMAIL_HOST_USER=webmaster@example.com
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=********
EMAIL_USE_TLS=True
EMAIL_USE_SSL=False

Tech/framework used

• NGINX: a free and open-source web server used as a reverse proxy;
• Django: a Python-based free and open-source web framework;
• Django REST framework: a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs.
• Celery: Distributed Task Queue for Python;
• PostgreSQL: a free and open-source relational database management system;
• RabbitMQ: the most widely deployed open source message broker.
• webpack: a module bundler, to bundle JavaScript files.

Contributing

For the sake of simplicity, to ease interaction with the community, we use the GitHub flow for open-source projects. In a few words:

• The main branch is always stable and deployable;
• Tags from the main branch are considered as releases;
• Contributors have to fork or create a new feature-branch to work on (if they are allowed to in the original repository) and propose a pull request to merge their branch to main.

If you'd like to contribute, please raise an issue or fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are warmly welcome!

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. See the CHANGELOG.md file for details.

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Contributors

• Julien Lebunetel - jlebunetel.
• Guillaume Collet - gcollet.
• Tony Vanpoucke - EdulabRennes2.