Impress

Impress is a web application for real-time collaborative text editing with user and role based access rights. Features include :

• User authentication through OIDC
• BlocNote.js text editing experience (markdown support, dynamic conversion, block structure, slash commands for block creation)
• Document export to pdf and docx from predefined templates
• Granular document permissions
• Public link sharing
• Offline mode

Impress is built on top of Django Rest Framework, Next.js and BlocNote.js

Getting started

Prerequisite

Make sure you have a recent version of Docker and Docker Compose installed on your laptop:

$ docker -v
  Docker version 20.10.2, build 2291f61

$ docker compose -v
  docker compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192

⚠️ You may need to run the following commands with sudo but this can be avoided by assigning your user to the docker group.

Project bootstrap

The easiest way to start working on the project is to use GNU Make:

$ make bootstrap FLUSH_ARGS='--no-input'

This command builds the app container, installs dependencies, performs database migrations and compile translations. It's a good idea to use this command each time you are pulling code from the project repository to avoid dependency-releated or migration-releated issues.

Your Docker services should now be up and running 🎉

You can access to the project by going to http://localhost:3000. You will be prompted to log in, the default credentials are:

username: impress
password: impress

📝 Note that if you need to run them afterwards, you can use the eponym Make rule:

$ make run-with-frontend

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⚠️ For the frontend developper, it is often better to run the frontend in development mode locally. To do so, install the frontend dependencies with the following command:

$ make frontend-install

And run the frontend locally in development mode with the following command:

$ make run-frontend-development

To start all the services, except the frontend container, you can use the following command:

$ make run

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Adding content

You can create a basic demo site by running:

$ make demo

Finally, you can check all available Make rules using:

$ make help

Django admin

You can access the Django admin site at http://localhost:8071/admin.

You first need to create a superuser account:

$ make superuser

Contributing

This project is intended to be community-driven, so please, do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any question related to our implementation or design decisions.

License

This work is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).