Superdesk

Superdesk is an open source end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform developed and maintained by Sourcefabric with the sole purpose of making the best possible software for journalism. It is scaleable to suit news organizations of any size. See the [Superdesk website] (https://www.superdesk.org) for more information.

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The Superdesk server provides the API to process all client requests. The client provides the user interface. Server and client are separate applications using different technologies.

Find more information about the client configuration in the README file of the repo: https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk-client-core

Installation

Client

1. Clone the repository
2. Navigate to the folder where you've cloned this repository (if it's the main repo, go inside the client folder).
3. Run npm install to install dependencies.
4. Run npm run build to build the app.
5. Run npm run start to run the web server.
6. Open browser and navigate to localhost:9000.

The grunt server attempts to resolve the API and websockets server to a local instance. In order to use a different instance, you may add the arguments --server=<host:[port]> and --ws=<host:[port]> to the command.

Server

Dependencies

• Python 3.8-3.10
• MongoDB 4-6
• ElasticSearch 7.x
• Redis

Ubuntu 22.04

# install system wide packages
$ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
  python3 python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv git gcc curl \
  libxml2-dev libxslt-dev \
  pkg-config libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libxmlsec1-openssl \
  libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libmagic-dev

# in server folder install dependencies
$ python3 -m venv env
$ . env/bin/activate
$ python3 -m pip install -U pip wheel setuptools
$ python3 -m pip install -Ur requirements.txt

# init the app
$ honcho run python manage.py app:initialize_data

# create admin user
$ honcho run users:create -u admin -p admin -e admin@localhost --admin

# run the app
$ honcho start

Linux (with Docker)

Use Docker Compose

$ docker compose up