• Support for offline data synchronization with conflict detection
• Fuzzy (approximate) full-text search
• Social login with automatic verified account linking
• Request rate throttling and resource quotas
• REST API

https://boomerang-core.herokuapp.com/

• create facebook and google social applications
• update the target domain and server email in boomerang/settings.py
• commit changes: git commit -a -m "configured"

• install python (3.6)
• setup postgresql (it is possible to use a different database, but fuzzy search will not work)
• setup redis (it is possible to deploy without redis with a different cache configuration in the settings)
• update settings.py to point to the configured services
• (optional) update settings.py with the allowed origins and redirect urls
• install python packages: pip install -r requirements.txt (preferably in a virtualenv)
• create the database: sudo -u postgres createuser -P boomerang && sudo -u postgres createdb -O boomerang boomerang && sudo -u postgres psql -c "create extension pg_trgm;" boomerang
• initialize the database: ./manage.py migrate
• create the superuser: ./manage.py createsuperuser
• start the server: ./manage.py runserver
• perform routine maintenance: bin/maintenance.sh

• install heroku toolbelt
• create a heroku application; add buildpacks heroku/python, https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-pgbouncer, and https://github.com/agriffis/nginx-buildpack; provision heroku postgres, heroku redis, and heroku scheduler
• (optional) create a sentry project or provision sentry from heroku
• connect: heroku login && heroku git:remote -a <app_name>
• configure: heroku config:set SECRET_KEY=<secret_key> ALLOW_ORIGIN=<optional_origin> FRONTEND_LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL=<optional_url> EMAIL_PASSWORD=<email_password> SENTRY_DSN=<sentry_dsn> (set SENTRY_DSN only if a sentry project was created manually)
• example production configuration
  • ALLOW_ORIGIN
  • DATABASE_URL
  • EMAIL_PASSWORD
  • FRONTEND_LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
  • NUM_WORKERS
  • PGBOUNCER_DEFAULT_POOL_SIZE
  • PGBOUNCER_MIN_POOL_SIZE
  • PGBOUNCER_RESERVE_POOL_SIZE
  • REDIS_MAX_CONNS
  • REDIS_URL
  • SECRET_KEY
  • SENTRY_DSN
• deploy: git push heroku
• create superuser: heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser
• schedule daily maintenance: bin/maintenance.sh

• login to /admin/, edit the site and create the social applications