This is the source code to Wagtail's website

• Docker or Vagrant (see below)
• Fabric, AWS CLI and Heroku CLI (only for downloading production / staging data)

You first need to install Docker and Docker Compose. Once they are installed, run the following commands to get up and running:

git clone https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail.org.git
cd wagtail.org
make setup

This will create a set of Docker containers on your local machine and also create a blank database.

Run the following command to start the Docker containers:

make start

Then, to start the development server, open a new terminal window and run:

make runserver

This will launch django-admin runserver in the web container, which serves the site on http://localhost:8000/, with the admin at http://localhost:8000/admin/.

To run migrations within Docker you'll need to run:

make migrate

To create a new superuser locally, run:

make superuser

This should only need to be done the first time you set up a new database:

make sh
python manage.py createcachetable

If you'd like to work with production data and have access, run the following commands:

fab pull-production-data
fab pull-production-media

Access will only be given when absolutely necessary.

You first need to install Vagrant and Virtualbox. Once they are installed, run the following commands to get up and running:

git clone https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail.org.git
cd wagtail.org
vagrant up

This will download the base image and provision a local VM that will run the site locally.

You will need to apply migrations, create a super user, and create a cache table once the vagrant environment is setup.

vagrant ssh
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser
./manage.py createcachetable

Common Vagrant commands:

• vagrant up starts the VM
• vagrant halt stops the VM
• vagrant ssh opens a shell in the VM
• vagrant destroy deletes the VM

Shortcut commands:

Within the VM shell, you can run ./manage.py to run any Django management command. But we have added a couple of shortcuts to save on typing:

• dj <command> [args] - Runs a management command (eg, dj shell)
• djrun - Starts the webserver on port 8000

During the initial setup, you will need to build the frontend assets:

• nvm use to use the suggested node version (requires nvm, fnm or similar. You'll also need to run nvm install to install and activate the version of node required for the project)
• npm i to install dependencies
• npm run build to compile CSS & JS

If you are editing frontend assets, you will also need to rebuild assets while you edit:

• npm run start start the Webpack build in watch mode, without live-reload
• npm run start:reload start the Webpack server build on port 3000 with live-reload

Other common commands:

• npm run lint lint JS & CSS files
• npm run format format files

For more info see Frontend general info

The site is hosted on Heroku, and is deployed automatically. main deploys to production, and staging deploys to staging.

Wagtail documentation is hosted at readthedocs. A Cloudflare worker is in place to rewrite canonical URLs on old versions of the documentation - see conf/wagtaildocs-cloudflare-worker.js.