CoW CMS - Content Management System

This project is a Content Management System for the cow.fi.

It is an instance of Strapi, a headless CMS.

API

Swagger Docs: https://cms.cow.fi/swagger.html

👨‍💻 Develop

Some requirements are:

• Node v18 or v20 (use an LTS version)
• Yarn
• PostgreSQL (optional), for local dev is easier to use sqlite3 (the default). Alternatively you can use PostgreSQL

Run locally using sqlite3

The CMS relies on a database. The simplest is to use Sqlite for development (it will be created automatically at data/sqlite.db when you start the app).

Steps:

1. Build the project (required before running):

   yarn build

2. Create a .env file and set at least APP_KEYS (required for the app to start):

   cp .env.example .env

   Edit .env and set APP_KEYS to a comma-separated list of secret keys, for example:

   APP_KEYS="mySecretKey1,mySecretKey2"
   

   You can leave other values as in the example for local dev, or adjust them as needed (see Strapi environment config).

3. Start the dev server:

   yarn dev

4. Visit http://localhost:1337/admin and create your local admin user.

Dev locally using PostreSQL

If you want to use PostgreSQL (instead of sqlite3), you need to install it first:

• Mac: Postgres.app.
• Linux: PostgreSQL for Linux
• Windows: PostgreSQL for Windows

Once you know the running port, you can setup the .env file:

# Create an ENV file from the example
cp .env.example .env

Edit the .env file and set the database connection

• See https://docs.strapi.io/dev-docs/configurations/environment

To start with the new database, you simply start the dev server:

yarn dev

👷‍♀️ Build

Before running the server for the first time, you need to build it (see Run locally using sqlite3 for the full setup). To build:

yarn build

Run project (from a previous build)

🚨 For this command to work you must first have a build in place. You can do this via the previous command, yarn build.

yarn start

🐳 Run with Docker

# Create an ENV file from the example
cp .env.example .env

# Start the project
docker compose up

Then visit:

• http://localhost:1337/admin

Also, a Postgres database will be exposed on port 5432.

⌨️ Strapi CLI

Strapi comes with a powerful CLI tooling Strapi documentation

# Check version of the Strapi CLI
yarn strapi version

# Help command
yarn strapi help

Library

This project also exposes a library that can be used to interact with the CMS API.

To build the library, run:

# Create a new version (patch, minor or major)
npm version minor

# Build and Publish to NPM
./scripts/publish-lib.sh