BigchainDB

Landing page for BigchainDB

Live | Styleguide | Beta | Gamma

Development

You need to have the following tools installed on your development machine before moving on:

• node.js & npm
• (optional) use Yarn instead of npm for faster dependency installations
• Ruby (for sanity, install with rvm)
• Bundler

Install dependencies

Run the following command from the repository's root folder to install all dependencies.

npm i && bundle install

or

yarn && bundle install

Development build

Spin up local dev server and livereloading watch task, reachable under https://localhost:1337:

gulp

Continuous Delivery

The site gets built & deployed automatically via Travis under the following conditions:

• every push builds the site
• every push to the master branch initiates a live deployment
• every pull request initiates a beta deployment

Manual Deployment

The site is hosted in an S3 bucket and gets deployed via a gulp task.

Prerequisite: Authentication

To deploy the site, you must authenticate yourself against the AWS API with your AWS credentials. Get your AWS access key and secret and add them to ~/.aws/credentials:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID>
aws_secret_access_key = <YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>

This is all that is needed to authenticate with AWS if you've setup your credentials as the default profile.

If you've set them up as another profile, say [bigchain] you can grab those credentials by using the AWS_PROFILE variable like so:

AWS_PROFILE=bigchain gulp deploy --live

In case that you get authentication errors or need an alternative way to authenticate with AWS, check out the AWS documentation.

Staging build & beta deployment

The staging build is essentially a full production build but it prevents search engine indexing & Google Analytics tracking.

# make sure your local npm packages & gems are up to date
npm update && bundle update

# make staging build in /_dist
gulp build --staging

# deploy contents of /_dist to beta
gulp deploy --beta

There's also a second beta deployment target called gamma under http://gamma.bigchaindb.com:

# build preventing search engine indexing & Google Analytics tracking
gulp build --staging

# deploy contents of /_dist to gamma
gulp deploy --gamma

Production build & live deployment

# make sure your local npm packages & gems are up to date
npm update && bundle update

# make production build in /_dist
gulp build --production

# deploy contents of /_dist to live
gulp deploy --live