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Development Guide for Athens

The proxy is built on the Buffalo framework. We chose this framework to make it as straightforward as possible to get your development environment up and running.

You'll need Buffalo v0.12.4 or later to get started on Athens, so be sure to download the CLI and put it into your PATH.

Athens uses Go Modules for dependency management. You will need Go v1.11 or later to get started on Athens.

See our Contributing Guide for tips on how to submit a pull request when you are ready.

Initial Development Environment Setup

Athens relies on having a few tools installed locally. Run make setup-dev-env to install them.

Go version

Athens is developed on Go1.11+.

To point Athens to a different version of Go set the following environment variable

GO_BINARY_PATH=go1.11.X
or whichever binary you want to use with athens

Dependencies

Services that Athens Needs

Athens relies on several services (i.e. databases, etc...) to function properly. We use Docker images to configure and run those services.

If you're not familiar with Docker, that's ok. In the spirit of Buffalo, we've tried to make it easy to get up and running:

  1. Download and install docker-compose (docker-compose is a tool for easily starting and stopping lots of services at once)
  2. Run make dev from the root of this repository

That's it! After the make dev command is done, everything will be up and running and you can move on to the next step.

If you want to stop everything at any time, run make down.

Note that make dev only runs the minimum amount of dependencies needed for things to work. If you'd like to run all the possible dependencies run make alldeps or directly the services available in the docker-compose.yml file. Keep in mind, though, that make alldeps does not start up Athens or Oympus, but only their dependencies.

Run the Proxy

After you've set up your dependencies, the buffalo CLI makes it easy to launch the proxy:

cd cmd/proxy
buffalo dev

After buffalo dev starts up, you'll see some console output like:

Starting application at 127.0.0.1:3000

And you'll be up and running. As you edit and save code, the buffalo dev command will notice and automatically re-compile and restart the server. That makes your life a little easier!

Run unit tests

In order to run unit tests, services they depend on must be running first:

make alldeps

then you can run the unit tests:

make test-unit