laseca

laseca is a social bitcoin to cash exchange, implemented as a webapp.

How to set up dev environment

Pre-requisites
- docker and docker compose
- node and npm
Installing
- Run npm install
- You can now start the app in a container by running npm run start:container (and shut it down with npm run stop:container).
Building
- The front-end code gets built with webpack. You can build it anytime with npm run build.
- For development, it's useful to build continuously. You can run npm run watch and webpack will build every time you edit a monitored file.
Running
- Copy the .env.dist file into .env and set any values you like.
- The app will run in a single container, with a Postgres database, a caddy webserver and the nodejs app.
- Note that the container doesn't come with a volume for Postgres: default behaviour is to start from scratch every time you create the container, delete everything every time you delete the container.
- You probably want to run migrations to get the database into proper state. You can do so with npx sequelize-cli db:migrate.
- The docker image launches the nodejs app with nodemon, so changes to the code will be available immediately.
- Furthermore, since the git repository gets mounted live into the docker container, the live changes made by webpack watch mode will also be available as you work on front end files.
- The Postgres database is reachable from the host, so you can use your favourite SQL client to access it.
- You can format with npm run format and lint with npm run lint.

The app has never been deployed in production, so there's a lot of things to polish.

The (hypothetical) approach is to:

Spin up a linux box.
Install node, caddy and postgres.
Configure them all nice and stuff so they work together and have a reasonable production set up.
Set up the node app with systemd so it runs proper.

You can find documentation under docs/.

other/branding contains brand assets of laseca.
other/nostr-brand-assets contains some nostr-related open source icons, logos, etc.