WISE Freshwater: Volto Frontend

Documentation

A training on how to create your own website using Volto is available as part of the Plone training at https://training.plone.org/5/volto/index.html.

Getting started

1. Install nvm

   touch ~/.bash_profile
   curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
   
   source ~/.bash_profile
   nvm version
   

2. Install latest NodeJS 12.x:

   nvm install 12
   nvm use 12
   node -v
   v12.16.2
   

3. Install yarn

   curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash
   yarn -v
   

4. Clone:

   $ git clone https://github.com/eea/freshwater-frontend.git
   $ cd freshwater-frontend
   

5. Activate develop add-ons

   $ yarn develop
   

6. Install dependencies using Yarn

   $ yarn
   

7. Start frontend in develop mode without the need to build the JS resources

   $ yarn start
   

8. Or start frontend in production mode

   $ yarn start:prod
   

9. See application at http://localhost:3000

Backend

Installation:

Plone 5 backend package for the WISE-freshwater: https://github.com/eea/freshwater-backend

1. Install Docker

2. Install Docker Compose

3. Clone (in freshwater-frontend package)

   $ cd freshwater-frontend
   $ git clone git@github.com:eea/freshwater-backend.git backend
   

4. Build and run the image

   $ docker-compose build
   $ docker-compose up -d
   

Start the stack:

  $ docker-compose up -d ploneapi

Use the shell container to start Plone:

  $ docker-compose exec ploneapi bash

Inside the Plone container, you can use the instance script to start Zope:

  $ bin/standalone fg

Automated @eeacms dependencies upgrades

All the addon dependencies that are located in the dependencies section of package.json file that belong to @eeacms and have a MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH version are automatically upgraded on the release of a new version of the addon. This upgrade is done directly on the develop branch.

Exceptions from automated upgrades ( see https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/configuring-npm/package-json#dependencies for dependency configuration examples ) :

• All github or local paths
• Any version intervals ( ^version or >version or MAJOR.MINOR.x etc )

Release

See release

Production

For backend image see https://github.com/eea/eea.docker.plonesaas/tree/freshwater

Deploy

• Within Rancher > Catalog > EEA deploy Volto - Freshwater