spectrum-dev-stack

A simple Docker stack to jump-start Spectrum's local dev env setup.

This stack eliminates the need to manually install Spectrum's background services (RethinkDB and Redis) on your local machine, or start them separately. Please note that this stack is not intended for deployment, and does not provide Node.js environment for Spectrum itself, other people are working on it.

First time setup

Follow the original Spectrum instructions, but skip the steps for RethinkDB and Redis in the Installation section. Once you have yarn installed, clone this repo, make sure your Docker app is running, cd spectrum-dev-stack and run yarn start. It's going to take a couple of minutes for the yarn script to set things up for the first time.

Once yarn start has completed successfully, RethinkDB and Redis will be up and running (each inside of a corresponding docker container), and you won't need to start them manually, so you can skip those steps in the rest of the original instructions.

Restarting background services

The set up RethinkDB and Redis containers will remain running until you explicitly shut them down, restart your machine, or restart your Docker app.

To start them back up again, simply cd to your spectrum-dev-stack directory and run yarn start.

List of commands

The full list of available commands for managing the services:

• yarn start — creates (if needed) and starts the services' containers; the containers will run until stopped or Docker is restarted
• yarn stop — stops the containers
• yarn down — deletes the services' containers; persistent volumes used by the containers will stay around until manually deleted with docker volume rm spectrum_rethinkdb spectrum_redis or docker volume prune commands