Anzu is an open source software project designed to create communities. Simple, reactive, and performant forums software.

This repository contains the core backend code and the frontend as a git submodule inside static/frontend.

While usable in production (we've run it ourselves in buldar.com quite smoothly for 5 years) this forums platform is in early stages of development, and it may change suddenly, we're finding our way to define a first stable version.

For install previous knowledge about the stack (golang, mongodb, redis) is required to set things up.

• Go programming language
• redis (required) for cache
• mongoDB (required)
• react for the webapp

The first step is to download Go, official binary distributions are available at https://golang.org/dl/.

Now you need to download and configure MongoDB and Redis. Alternatively you can use remote servers.

Download the core in any path.

Initialize the repo submodule, so the frontend is in static/frontend.

git submodule update --init --recursive

Install the core dependencies with go build.

Install the frontend dependencies with npm install.

Copy the .env.example file into .env and edit it to meet your local environment configuration.

Building the frontend before getting started is required, to do so, execute npm install && npm run build inside static/frontend submodule. Once the frontend is built you can build the backend program with go build -o anzu and then execute ./anzu api to run anzu's http web server.

We follow the Conventional Commits specification, which help us with automatic semantic versioning and CHANGELOG generation.