Getting Started with Core Development

Attention

This article is only useful to the developers interested in developing the Ajenti core itself. For plugin/extension development, see Getting started with plugin development

Required knowledge

  • Python 3.x
  • async programming with gevent
  • HTML
  • CoffeeScript (with AngularJS)
  • LESS

Prerequisites

The following is the absolutely minimal set of software required to build and run Ajenti:

  • git
  • bower, babel, babel-preset-es2015 and lessc (from NPM)

Debian/Ubuntu extras:

  • python3-dbus (ubuntu)

Automatic Installation

The following script will perform a complete automatic installation under Debian or Ubuntu, using virtual environment with Python. The virtual environment is then located in /opt/ajenti and the cloned git repository in /opt/ajenti/ajenti. This install script will install a lot of dependencies, this may take several minutes.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ajenti/ajenti/master/scripts/install-dev.sh | sudo bash -s -

After a successful installation, do the following to activate the dev mode:

  • Activate the virtual environment : source /opt/ajenti/bin/activate
  • Navigate in the git repository : cd /opt/ajenti/ajenti
  • Launch a rundev recipe : make rundev ( quit with Ctrl+ C )
  • Call https://localhost:8000 in your browser ( you will get some warnings because of the self-signed certificate, it’s perfectly normal.

Manual installation

First, it’s necessary to complete the install for plugin developpement mentioned here : Dev getting started

Download the source:

git clone git://github.com/ajenti/ajenti.git

Install the dependencies:

# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-pip python3-dev python3-lxml libffi-dev libssl-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev uuid-dev python3-dbus gettext

# RHEL
sudo dnf install gcc python3-devel python3-pip libxslt-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel dbus-python gettext

cd ajenti
sudo pip3 install -r ajenti-core/requirements.txt
sudo pip3 install ajenti-dev-multitool

sudo npm install -g coffee-script less bower

Download and install Bower dependencies:

make bower

Ensure that resource compilation is set up correctly and works (optional):

make build

Launch Ajenti in dev mode:

make rundev

Navigate to http://localhost:8000/.

Hint

Changes in CoffeeScript and LESS files will be recompiled automatically when you refresh the page; Python code will not. Additional debug information will be available in the console output and browser console. Reloading the page with Ctrl-F5 (Cache-Control: no-cache) will unconditionally rebuild all resources


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