pussinboot / lainonlife

Site and scripts for lainon.life

lainon.life

Online radio for lainons.

Assumptions

There are some assumptions in the code you might have to fix before deploying for real elsewhere:

• backend.py assumes that it has write access to the upload directory.
• backend.py assumes that there are four MPD instances running on ports 6600 to 6603.
• metrics.py probably assumes a lot about permissions.
• radio.js assumes Icecast is accessible at /radio/.
• schedule.py assumes that bumps are in the album "Lainchan Radio Transitions".

These shouldn't really matter for development. Some things might not work properly, that's it.

Usage

0. Configure your webserver.

   You'll need to configure it to both serve static files (probably from some directory under /srv/http or /var/www) and proxy unknown requests to the backend (which will be running on some port you choose now).

   Here's an example for nginx, serving files from /srv/http and using port 5000 for the backend.

   server {
     listen 80 default_server;
     listen [::]:80 default_server;
   
     root /srv/http;
   
     location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ @script;
     }
   
     location @script {
       proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
     }
   }
   

1. Build the frontend assets.

   You need stack; or hpack, cabal-install, and GHC.

   $ cd frontend
   $ stack build
   $ stack exec frontend build
   

   If all goes well, the directory _site now contains all the frontend assets.

   This will take a while the first time because GHC is slow and Haskell things pull in a lot of dependencies.

2. Put the frontend assets where you told the server they would be.

   $ cp -r frontend/_site/* /srv/http
   

3. Start the backend on the port you told the server it would be.

   $ ./misc/backend.py --http-dir=/srv/http 5000
   

Bash, Haskell, AND Python?

I like bash and Python for small things, where bash beats Python into the ground for things which don't really require any logic. I like Haskell for everything else.

I want to help!

Great! See the open issues. You can also find me on irc.lainchan.org.