COLLECTIVO

Collectivo is an open-source template for community platforms, based on Directus, Nuxt, and Keycloak.

Local setup

• Install Docker and PNPM
• Clone this repository
• Create .env file with cp .env.example .env
• Create a network docker network create proxiable
• Run docker compose up -d keycloak keycloak-db
• When keycloak is running, run docker compose up -d
• Log in at http://localhost:8055 with api@example.com and d1r3ctu5
• Install the directus-sync extension
• Apply schema with npx directus-sync push
• Install packages with pnpm i
• Start dev server with pnpm dev
• Create example data with pnpm seed (run in a separate terminal while pnpm dev is running, sometimes it needs to be run twice)
• Go to http://localhost:3000 and http://localhost:8055

Production setup

• Install Docker and PNPM
• Set up a reverse proxy with a docker network called proxiable
• Set the following custom Nginx configuration for Keycloak

  proxy_buffer_size   128k;
  proxy_buffers   4 256k;
  proxy_busy_buffers_size   256k;
  

• Clone this repository
• Run pnpm i and pnpm build
• Run docker compose up -d
• Apply database schema (see below)

Change database schemas

Collectivo uses directus-sync for changes in the database schema.

• Make changes to the database schema on your local system
• Run npx directus-sync pull to update the database schema in the repository
• Make a database backup of the production system (see below)
• Run npx directus-sync push -u "<URL>" -e "<EMAIL>" -p "<PASSWORD>" to apply the new database schema to the production system