# VibesHome

**Where all your vibes live**

A forum engine in progress. Do not use in production. Run ./migrate.py install and follow the prompts. Full install instructions below.

It needs everything, posting, and reply works! So it can be hacked on further 😅

# Full install instructions

## step 1
If you've never done python before.. Python projects live inside little boxes call virtual envs. To set one up for this project. Do

```shell
python -m venv venv
```
That will set up a virtual env in the customary place. To use it
## step 2
```shell 
source ./venv/bin/activate
```
## step 3
Then you install the  dependencies like so
```shell
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
## step 4
Next run migrate install, and follow all the prompts
```shell 
./migrate.py install
```
## step 5
Finally boot app.py

```shell
./app.py
```
It will setup a listener on port 5052


## step 6 

When done playing exit the app server by pressing ctrl-c then run 
```shell
deactivate 
```

# stuff to do on a git pull

```shell
./migrate.py upgrade-schema
pip install -r requirements.txt
```


# known bugs


The app server will invalidate your cookies on every  make a change, and reload. as it regenerates the secret key used for session signing every time it restarts with stat. 
I will fix this eventually. 


Thus endith the instructions