Development mode for this application starts up 2 servers in the same container, one running on port 5000 (Python/Django backend) and one running on port 3000 (Node/React frontend). This allows for changes to be picked up and re-built from the mounted local volumes.
With Docker installed run
docker-compose down; docker-compose build && docker-compose up
Then the app in development should be accessible on http://localhost:5000/
Now you can make changes to frontend/js/app.jsx and the changes should show up in the browser automagically.
To create a local admin user you should run this.
docker exec -it canvas_app_explorer ./manage.py shell -c "from django.contrib.auth.models import User; User.objects.create_superuser('admin', 'admin@example.com', 'admin')"
Please see the Wiki for instructions on configuring with LTI
The openshift build compiles all of the frontend assets into the container during the build. It uses whitenoise currently to serve up the content.
To build, use the separate docker-compose-openshift-test.yml file. This uses a slightly different dockerfiles/Dockerfile.openshift that uses a static path and disables DEBUG.
docker compose -f docker-compose-openshift-test.yml build
Then to start it you can run
docker compose -f docker-compose-openshift-test.yml up
This should start up as expected on http://localhost:5000