An ancient forum somehow still running in production.
- Started as a vBulletin forum in 2006 when I was 17
- Unfortunately deleted in 2015 (Guildfall) Wayback machine
- Written from scratch with Clojure and Datomic in 2014 (don't ask) Wayback machine
- Ported to Node.js and Postgres starting in 2015 (ongoing infiniwork) Wayback machine
The Guild is a Node.js app that talks to a Postgres database.
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Install the latest stable version of Node.
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Download the repository and install its dependencies:
git clone git@github.com:danneu/guild.git cd guild pnpm install -
Launch Postgres (by default it will run on
http://localhost:5432) and create an empty database namedguild.createdb guild
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The Guild comes with a command that rebuilds the database with tables and fills them with some data to play with:
pnpm run reset-db
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Now you can launch the server:
pnpm start > Listening on port 3000 # Or in dev mode: pnpm run dev
The guild uses gulp to build assets into the folder ./dist/ which will include a manifest file ./dist/rev-manifest.json that contains the name of the bundles.
dist
├── all-06d6e3ed22.js
├── all-7dd8853d5f.css
├── fonts
└── rev-manifest.json
You can run the task with:
pnpm run buildIf the dist folder exists, then the compiled js/css/fonts bundles will be served.
Otherwise, i.e. for development, all of the js/css/font files are loaded individually and uncompiled.
In other words, you must run pnpm run build in production for the compiled assets to be served, and you must also remember to rebuild them when they change, else stale bundles will be served.
The Guild is configured with environment variable listed in server/config.js.
It will run with the default variables, but some features are turned off until they are configured:
- Email-sending system requires
AWS_KEYandAWS_SECRET(your http://aws.amazon.com/ API creds) - User registration system requires
CF_TURNSTILE_SITEKEYandCF_TURNSTILE_SECRET(your https://www.cloudflare.com/turnstile/ API creds)