Nomos

In greek mythology, Nomos is the personified spirit of law.

This system in a way acts as the rule set for how things are governed, via membership levels and privileges.

Development

See here for complete setup, API, and philosophy: https://github.com/vhs/nomos/wiki

For the old development guide, see: https://github.com/vhs/nomos/wiki/Contributing

Requirements

For development, you'll need the following components/dependencies:

• Docker/Docker Compose
• NodeJS/NPM
• PHP 8.2, and extensions (php-xml, php-curl, php-bcmath, php-zip)

All other development dependencies (such as bower, composer, eslint, husky, php-cs-fixer, phpunit, prettier, etc.) will automatically be installed upon running npm install after checkout.

Development setup guide

Install the requirements: docker and docker-compose, nodejs, php 8.2 (apt-get install php8.2), php extensions (apt-get install php-xml php-curl php-bcmath php-zip)

On Mac/Windows, you probably want Docker Desktop, which is a fancy app that makes and manages a Linux virtual machine that it runs Docker in.

• Create a docker-compose configuration file:
  • Copy docker-compose.dev.conf to docker-compose.conf
  • You can also use docker-compose.template.conf or docker-compose.sample.conf as a starting place.
  • Edit your new docker-compose.conf to customize what services are enabled
• Create a docker.env file
  • copy docker/nomos.env.template to docker/nomos.env.
• run npm install in the root directory
• Run ./docker-compose.sh as a 1:1 wrapper for docker-compose, or generate a local docker-compose.yml file for direct usage with docker-compose with ./docker-compose.sh config > docker-compose.yml

Grant write permission to all users on the log directory: chmod a+w logs. The reason this is needed is because the back-end PHP code runs as a non-root user inside the container, and by default permissions don't grant write access to non-owners of directories.

Start the service with ./docker-compose.sh up. This should bring everything up, but the webhook service will still be failing, which is expected.

To get the webhook service working, run tools/make-webhook-key.sh in another terminal, which will provide the correct value of NOMOS_RABBITMQ_NOMOS_TOKEN. Then, edit that into docker/nomos.env.

Once you have done this, press Ctrl-C in the terminal with ./docker-compose.sh up, then run ./docker-compose.sh up again.

You're all set! You can get the address to access the Nomos service from your docker host system by running the following in a separate terminal as docker-compose.sh:

$ docker inspect nomos-frontend | jq -r '.[0].NetworkSettings.Networks | to_entries | .[0].value.IPAddress'

Or make your docker-compose.conf include docker-compose/core.ports.yml, to proxy port 80 of your docker network to port 80 on your host machine.

The username is vhs and the password is password.