Setup

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/hicommonwealth/commonwealth.git

Navigate to the project directory:
```
cd commonwealth
```
Install dependencies:
```
pnpm install
```
Set up environment variables:
```
cp .env.example .env
```
Run external services (postgresql, redis, rabbitmq):
```
docker-compose up -d
```
Run the database migrations:
```
pnpm migrate-db
```
Start the server:
```
pnpm run start
```

The API server runs on http://localhost:3000/ and you can test it by making a request to http://localhost:3000/api/health. It should respond with

{
  "status": "ok"
}

The client is served from http://localhost:8080/.

Some features of the application require additional API keys. While the app will still function without them, certain functionalities may be limited.

Required for openAI image generation:

Required for chain features on EVM chains (groups, stake, contests):

Ensure these keys are set up in your environment variables to fully utilize all features of the application.

Scripts

pnpm start-all
- Starts ALL the microservices in different processes. Requires a RabbitMQ instance/connection to function properly.
pnpm start-apps
- Starts just the web-servers from all the microservices (currently just Commonwealth and Chain-Events)
- This should be enough for most local front-end development
pnpm start-rmq
- Starts a local RabbitMQ instance using Docker.
- Run this in a separate terminal and pair it with the pnpm start-all command to get a fully functional app.
pnpm start-redis
- make sure to have REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379 in your .env file
- Starts a local redis instance using Docker, it will start redis on its default port 6379
pnpm load-db [optional-dump-name]
- Loads the default latest.dump or the optional-dump-name into the database
- Only available in the commonwealth and chain-events packages