developertogo / parabol

Free online agile retrospective meeting tool

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Overview

Parabol is an open-source SaaS application for running team retrospectives and operating a distributed organization. We publish our company's history and business metrics, too.

Stack Information

Concern	Solution
Server	Node
Server Framework	uWebSockts.js
Database (Legacy)	RethinkDB
Database	PostgreSQL
PubSub & Cache	Redis
Data Transport	GraphQL
Real-time Connectivity	trebuchet
Client Cache	Relay
UI Framework	React
Styling	Emotion

Setup

Prerequisites

• Node
• Yarn
• Docker Compose
• Watchman (Development only)

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/ParabolInc/parabol.git
$ cd parabol
$ cp .env.example .env # Add your own vars here
$ yarn
$ yarn db:start
$ yarn dev

By default, the app will run at: http://localhost:3000/

If yarn db:start failed and localhost:5050 isn't working, a docker container, volume or image may be corrupted and need to be pruned.

Build for production and start application:

$ yarn && yarn build && yarn start

RethinkDB

• Migrations are stored in packages/server/database/migrations
• RethinkDB Dashboard is at http://localhost:8080

PostgreSQL

• pgadmin is at http://localhost:5050

• Connect using the values of PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL and PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD from your .env

• Click "Add New Server" and fill out the forms with your .env values

  • General.name = POSTGRES_DB
  • Connection.host = 'postgres' (hardcoded from docker-compose dev.yml, not from .env!)
  • Connection.username = POSTGRES_USER
  • Connection.password = POSTGRES_PASSWORD
  • Connection.maintenanceDatabase = POSTGRES_DB
  • Connection.port = POSTGRES_PORT

• Fill out the form with values from your .env. Set the host to postgres

Getting Involved

Parabol offers equity for qualified contributions.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information on how to get involved and how to get compensated.

Helpful VSCode extensions

We use GraphQL for IntelliSense and syntax highlighting.

Releases

For details on all releases, refer to CHANGELOG.md.

Parabol Core Team

• jordanh
• ackernaut
• mattkrick

License

Copyright (c) 2016-present, Parabol, Inc.

This codebase is dual-licensed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3.0 while holding, at Parabol's sole discretion, the right to create new licenses. For details please read LICENSE.