studio

Altinn Studio

Altinn Studio is the next generation Altinn application development solution. Together with Altinn Apps and Altinn Platform, it makes a complete application development and hosting platform.

Altinn Studio is available at https://altinn.studio.

Use the documentation to get started using Altinn Studio.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of Altinn Studio up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

1. Latest .NET Core 3.1 SDK
2. Node.js (Version 12.*)
3. Newest Git
4. A code editor - we like Visual Studio Code
   • Also install recommended extensions (f.ex. C# and Debugger for Chrome)
5. Docker Desktop
6. Update hosts file (C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts) by adding the following values. On MacOS add the same values to values /private/etc/hosts using cmd sudo nano /private/etc/hosts.

localhost altinn3.no
127.0.0.1 altinn3.no

7. Make sure your C drive is shared with docker, Docker Settings -> Shared Drives
   On MacOS: Change docker-compose.yml (both)

     volumes:
       - "C:/AltinnCore/Repos:/AltinnCore/Repos"

   to:

     volumes:
       - "/Users/<yourname>/AltinnCore/Repos:/AltinnCore/Repos"

8. World Wide Web Publishing Service must be disabled, Services -> "World Wide Web Publishing Service" rigth click and choose "stop"

Installing

Clone Altinn Studio repo and navigate to the studio folder.

git clone https://github.com/Altinn/altinn-studio
cd altinn-studio/src/studio

Run all parts of the solution in containers (Make sure docker is running)

docker-compose up -d --build

The solution is now available locally at altinn3.no

If you make changes and want to rebuild a specific project using docker-compose this can be done using

docker-compose up -d --build <container>

Example

docker-compose up -d --build altinn_designer

Running solutions locally

Designer

The Designer component can be run locally when developing/debugging. The rest of the solution (repository and load-balancer) will still have to be running in containers. Follow the install steps above if this has not already been done.

Stop the container running Designer.

docker stop altinn-designer

Navigate to the designer backend folder. The first time running, or after any package changes, get the latest packages.

cd src/studio/src/designer/backend
npm ci
npm run gulp-install-deps

Build and run the code.

dotnet build
npm run gulp # first time only
npm run gulp-develop

If you are not going to edit the designer react app (frontend) you can use

cd src/studio/src/designer/backend
npm ci
npm run gulp # first time only
dotnet run

Which will build the Designer .net backend and the designer react app, but not listen to changes to the react app.

Building other react apps

If you need to rebuild other react apps, for instance dashboard or app-development, this can be done by navigating to their respective folders, example src/studio/src/designer/frontend/dashboard and then run the following build script

npm run build

Some of the react projects also have various other predefined npm tasks, which can be viewed in the package.json file which is located in the root folder of each react project, example src/studio/src/designer/frontend/dashboard.

Running the tests

End to end tests

Automated end to end tests are currently being developed.

Coding style tests

Coding style tests are available for the React front end application, using tslint.

Navigate to the React front end applications and run linting.

cd src/studio/src/designer/frontend
npm run lint

Deployment

The current build is deployed in Kubernetes on Azure. Automated CI/CD using Azure DevOps pipelines.

Built With

• React/Redux - The front-end framework
• .NET Core/C# - The back-end framework
• npm - Package management
• Docker - Container platform
• Kubernetes - Container orchestration

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Authors

• Altinn Studio development team - If you want to get in touch, just create a new issue.

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the 3-Clause BSD License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.