Anzu is our greatest endeavor to build the most rad, simple & reactive forum software out there since the Javascript revolution.
Forum platforms to host communities are vast. Many would say it's a lifeless space with almost zero innovation, and attempting to create something new is pointless. We dissent, and if you found this repository you might also share with us the idea that there has to be an alternative to the old forum. Well, we think Anzu is that young and sexy software that could bring back to life the community-building movement.
This repository contains the core backend and the frontend submodule link. We're still working in the first alpha, so previous knowledge about the stack is required to set things up.
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 yarn 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.