You've now (hopefully) successfully installed and started the Samfundet4 project! What now?
We recommend spending some time ensuring your editor/IDE is properly configured. This is of course a very subjective topic, but we give some pointers in the Editor configuration section.
After you've set up your editor/IDE, we recommend diving in head-first and just picking an issue you'd like to solve. Be sure to have the Documentation Overview open and ready for when you get stuck :-) If you find that some parts of the documentation are lacking, don't be afraid to create a PR to fix it!
You'll likely encounter a situation where you'd like to "reset" the database, by deleting all its data and seeding it
again. It's quite easy to do this, the first step is to stop the backend server. Then in the backend/database
directory, delete either the db.sqlite3 if you're running native (or WSL), or the docker.db.sqlite3 file if you're
running in Docker.
Then simply start the backend server again. This will automatically create the database file and seed it automatically.
If you've done some work in backend and changed/created any models, you'll also have created migration files. You'll occasionally encounter a situation where you and another developer have both commited migrations with the same number. Typically the other developer will have gotten their migration file merged to master, resulting in a number conflict in your branch.
The easiest way to fix this is to simply delete the migration file you have created, and running the makemigrations
command again:
- Docker:
docker compose exec backend bash- Then run the same Poetry command as in the line below
- Native:
poetry run python3 manage.py makemigrations