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Before We Start

Some portions of the Adocasts site rely on production data or external APIs & SDKs for information. The site will still function fine for you locally, but these sections may not render unless you set up an account specifically for them.

• Trending Lessons: Relies on our Plausible API connection.
• Billing & Plans: Relies on our Stripe connection. You can create your own Stripe account with test data to get this working.
• Content Schedule: Relies on our Notion API connection.
• Social Authentication: Relies on Google and GitHub services.

Prerequisites

• PostgreSQL — We use PostgreSQL as our database driver so you'll either want it installed on your machine or a service that provides it.
• SMTP Provider — Locally, we like to use MailTrap
• Node v20+ — Recommended

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/adocasts/adocasts.git

2. Install NPM packages

npm i

3. Duplicate .env.example and rename .env
4. Fill out the .env variables

Data

We provide a StarterSeed that will populate your database with faker data to populate pages on the Adocasts site.

I haven't tested this yet since our migration from AdonisJS 5 to 6. If you run into any problems, feel free to open an issue.

1. Migrate your database

node ace migration:run

2. (Optional) If you'd like to start fresh (without faker data), open our StarterSeed at database/seeders/StarterSeed.ts and comment out the seedUsersAndContent() call within the run method.

public async run() {
  const trx = await Database.transaction()
  
  try {
    await this.seedRoles(trx)

    if (!Application.inTest) {
      // await this.seedUsersAndContent(trx)
    }

    await trx.commit()
  } catch (error) {
    await trx.rollback()
    console.log({ error })
  }
}

3. Seed our faker data

node ace db:seed