Focalboard

Focalboard is an open source project management app for individuals and teams. It comes in two editions:

• 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.

Building the server

make prebuild
make

Currently tested with:

• Go 1.15.2
• MacOS Catalina (10.15.6)
• Ubuntu 18.04
• Windows 10

The server defaults to using SQLite as the store, but can be configured to use Postgres:

• In config.json
  • Set dbtype to "postgres"
  • Set dbconfig to the connection string (which you can copy from dbconfig_postgres)
• Create a new "focalboard" database with psql
• Restart the server

Running and testing the server

To start the server, run ./bin/octoserver

Server settings are in config.json.

Open a browser to http://localhost:8000 to start.

Building and running standalone desktop apps

You can build standalone apps that package the server to run locally against SQLite:

• Mac:
  • make mac-app
  • run mac/dist/Focalboard.app
  • Requires: macOS Catalina (10.15), Xcode 12 and a development signing certificate.
• Linux:
  • Install webgtk dependencies
    • sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
    • sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
  • make linux-app
  • run linux/dist/focalboard-app
• Windows
  • make win-app
  • run win/dist/focalboard.exe
  • Requires: Windows 10

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.

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