An SRD and open-source material reference site for 5th edition D&D

Open5e is a community project driven by a small number of volunteers in their spare time. We welcome any and all contributions! Please join our Discord to help out: https://discord.gg/9RNE2rY or check out the issue board if you'd like to see what's being worked on!

The Django API uses Django REST Framework for its browsability and ease of use when developing CRUD endpoints.

The server runs in a docker container. You'll need to first install docker on your system, then getting it running is extremely simple:

starting from root /open5e directory:

export OPEN_5E_ROOT=`pwd` #set the /server folder as the root of the Python project
export DJANGO_SECRET='@pt#ouh)@!c+2eh(!aj_vtc=s7t$uk-l1!ry3^fcercz%si01@' # this should be a nukable test key that you're manually replacing at startup time for production
docker-compose up

You will want to leave the server terminal running while you launch the UI in a separate termainal so you can observe requests.

Open5e uses the Nuxt framework for Vue.js, which takes care of a lot of the architectural work for the frontend layer while allowing a large amount of flexibility.

From /open5e

cd ui
# install dependencies
$ npm install # Or yarn install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:3000
$ npm run dev

Other build options:

# build for production and launch server
$ npm run build
$ npm start

# generate static project
$ npm run generate

For detailed explanation on how things work, checkout the Nuxt.js docs.