Getting Started with Core Development¶
Attention
This article is only useful to the developers interested in developing the Ajenti core itself. For plugin/extension development, see Getting started with plugin development
Required knowledge¶
- Python 3.x
- async programming with gevent
- HTML
- CoffeeScript (with AngularJS)
- LESS
Prerequisites¶
The following is the absolutely minimal set of software required to build and run Ajenti:
- git
- bower, babel, babel-preset-es2015 and lessc (from NPM)
Debian/Ubuntu extras:
- python3-dbus (ubuntu)
Setting up¶
Download the source:
git clone git://github.com/ajenti/ajenti.git
Install the dependencies:
# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential python3-pip python3-dev python3-lxml libffi-dev libssl-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev uuid-dev python3-dbus``
# RHEL/CentOS
sudo dnf install gcc python3-devel python3-pip libxslt-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel dbus-python
sudo pip3 install -r ajenti-core/requirements.txt
sudo pip3 install ajenti-dev-multitool
sudo npm install -g coffee-script less bower
Download and install Bower dependencies:
make bower
Ensure that resource compilation is set up correctly and works (optional):
make build
Launch Ajenti in dev mode:
make rundev
Navigate to http://localhost:8000/.
Hint
Changes in CoffeeScript and LESS files will be recompiled automatically when you refresh the page; Python code will not. Additional debug information will be available in the console output and browser console. Reloading the page with Ctrl-F5 (Cache-Control: no-cache) will unconditionally rebuild all resources