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Install Locally¶

In the Preview Section, we have been running all of the application in docker containers. This saves you the trouble of installing the instance on your host and gets something visible fast. Now, we will run the application locally and the database and other services in containers. It's the best compromise between getting up and running with relevant services fast, while allowing you to iterate on your local instance quickly.

Before going on, let's move into the project directory:

cd development-instance

Install for development¶

To run the application locally, we will need to install it and its dependencies first. For this release, we need to add --pre, since we do have to install alpha releases. Be patient, it might take some time to build.

Pre-requisite: FLASK_ENV is available via invenio-cli flags

You do not need to export FLASK_ENV anymore. Just call the commands with --development or -d. This will instruct the different commands to create symbolic links to your files, so the changes are easily propagated. There are two operations that require this flag: install and update.

invenio-cli packages lock --pre --dev
invenio-cli install --pre --development

# Summarized output
Checking if dependencies are locked.
Dependencies are locked
Installing python dependencies... Please be patient, this operation might take some time...
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All dependencies are now up-to-date!
Updating instance path...
Instance path successfully.
Symlinking 'invenio.cfg'...
Symlinking 'templates'...
Symlinking 'app_data'...
Creating symbolic link for app_data folder...
Collecting statics and assets...
Cleaned webpack project.
Created webpack project.
Installing JS dependencies...
Installed webpack project.
Copying project statics and assets...
Symlinking assets...
Building assets...
Built webpack project.
Assets and statics updated.
Dependencies installed successfully.

As a result, the Python dependencies for the project have been installed in a new virtualenv for the application and many of the files in your project directory have been symlinked inside it.

Setup the database, Elasticsearch, Redis and RabbitMQ¶

We need to initialize the database, the indices and so on. For this, we use the services command. The first time this command is run, the services will be setup correctly and the containers running them will even restart upon a reboot of your machine. If you stop and restart those containers, your data will still be there. Upon running this command again, the initial setup is skipped.

invenio-cli services setup

Making sure containers are up...
Creating network "development-instance_default" with the default driver
Creating development-instance_cache_1 ... done
Creating development-instance_es_1    ... done
Creating development-instance_db_1    ... done
Creating development-instance_mq_1    ... done
Creating database postgresql+psycopg2://development-instance:development-instance@localhost/development-instance
Creating all tables!
INFO  [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl PostgresqlImpl.
INFO  [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume transactional DDL.
Created all tables!
Location default-location /your/path/to/var/instance/data as default True created
Role "admin" created successfully.
Creating indexes...
Putting templates...

In case you want to wipe out the data that was there (say to start fresh), you can use --force and nuke the content!

invenio-cli services setup --force

Making sure containers are up...
development-instance_mq_1 is up-to-date
development-instance_db_1 is up-to-date
development-instance_cache_1 is up-to-date
development-instance_es_1 is up-to-date
Cache cleared
Destroying database postgresql+psycopg2://development-instance:development-instance@localhost/development-instance
Destroying indexes...
Indexing queue has been initialized.
Indexing queue has been purged.
Creating database postgresql+psycopg2://development-instance:development-instance@localhost/development-instance
Creating all tables!
  [####################################]  100%
INFO  [alembic.runtime.migration] Context impl PostgresqlImpl.
INFO  [alembic.runtime.migration] Will assume transactional DDL.
Created all tables!
Location default-location /your/path/to/var/instance/data as default True created
Role "admin" created successfully.
Creating indexes...
Putting templates...

Import vocabularies¶

To import vocabularies such as licenses or languages in your instance do the following:

pipenv run invenio vocabularies import languages licenses

(Don't) Populate the database¶

Demo records now come by default! If you want to avoid having them when setting up your instance, pass the --no-demo-data flag to the setup command:

invenio-cli services setup --no-demo-data