This is a website where old (and new) Minecraft mods can be hosted and preserved for future generations.

To set up a development environment for the website, you'll need Python 3, pip, and yarn for the frontend assets.

It is recommended to install pip-tools (pip install pip-tools) in your virtualenv if you're going to be contributing. This will allow you to use pip-sync to keep your dependencies in sync with the requirements.

Before you run any flask commands, set the following environment variables. You can add this to the end of bin/activate in your virtualenv to have it set for you when you activate your environment.

export FLASK_APP=mcarch
export FLASK_ENV=development
export MCARCH_CONFIG=dev_config.py

Copy config.py.example to dev_config.py and edit it to configure your database (PostgreSQL is used in production and recommended for development), Redis, and B2 bucket. If you're not uploading files, you can exclude the B2 API keys and bucket name and use MCArchive's official B2 public URL: https://b2.mcarchive.net/file/mcarchive/.

Now you can install dependencies and build the assets.

1. Run yarn to install the frontend dependencies.
2. Run yarn run webpack to build frontend assets. If you want to make changes to them, you can run yarn run webpack --watch to auto-rebuild them.
3. Run pip-sync if you're using pip-tools, or just pip install -r requirements.txt otherwise.
4. Run flask db upgrade to create the database.

To create an admin user for yourself, run flask adduser <name> <email> admin.

To import metadata from the old archive format, you can run flask import /path/to/metadata, where the path is a folder containing metadata files for the old archive. The script assumes all the files in the imported metadata are already stored on Backblaze B2, and will add them to the database as such.

When you're done setting up, you can start the development server with flask run.