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# Focalboard
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[](http://www.focalboard.com)
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[Focalboard ](http://www.focalboard.com ) is an open source project management app for individuals and teams. It comes in two editions:
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* **Personal Desktop**: A stand-alone desktop app for your todos and personal projects
* **Personal Server**: A self-hosted server for your team to collaborate
The same server binary powers both editions.
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## Building the server
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```
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make prebuild
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make
```
Currently tested with:
* Go 1.15.2
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* MacOS Catalina (10.15.6)
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* Ubuntu 18.04
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* Windows 10
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The server defaults to using SQLite as the store, but can be configured to use Postgres:
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* In config.json
* Set dbtype to "postgres"
* Set dbconfig to the connection string (which you can copy from dbconfig_postgres)
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* Create a new "focalboard" database with psql
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* Restart the server
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## Running and testing the server
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To start the server, run `./bin/octoserver`
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Server settings are in config.json.
Open a browser to [http://localhost:8000 ](http://localhost:8000 ) to start.
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## Building and running standalone desktop apps
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You can build standalone apps that package the server to run locally against SQLite:
* Mac:
* `make mac-app`
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* run `mac/dist/Focalboard.app`
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* *Requires: macOS Catalina (10.15), Xcode 12 and a development signing certificate.*
* Linux:
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* Install webgtk dependencies
* `sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev`
* `sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev`
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* `make linux-app`
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* run `linux/dist/focalboard-app`
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* Windows
* `make win-app`
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* run `win/dist/focalboard.exe`
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* *Requires: Windows 10*
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Cross-compilation currently isn't fully supported, so please build on the appropriate platform. Refer to the GitHub Actions workflows (build-mac.yml, build-win.yml, build-ubuntu.yml) for the detailed list of steps on each platform.
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## Unit tests
Before checking-in commits, run: `make ci` , which is simlar to the ci.yml workflow and includes:
* Server unit tests: `make server-test`
* Webapp eslint: `cd webapp; npm run check`
* Webapp unit tests: `cd webapp; npm run test`
* Webapp UI tests: `cd webapp; npm run cypress:ci`
