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Build and dev
Authelia is written in Go and comes with a dedicated CLI called authelia-scripts
which is available after running source bootstrap.sh. This CLI provides many useful tools to help you during
development.
In order to build and contribute to Authelia, you need to make sure Go v1.13, Docker, docker-compose and Node with version >= 8 and < 12 are installed on your machine.
Get started
Authelia is made of Go application serving the API and a React application for the portal.
In order to ease development, Authelia uses the concept of suites to run Authelia from source code so that your patches are included. This is a kind of virtual environment running Authelia in a complete ecosystem (LDAP, Redis, SQL server). Note that Authelia is hotreloaded in the environment so that your patches are instantly included.
The next command starts the suite called Standalone:
authelia-scripts suites setup Standalone
Most of the suites are using docker-compose to bootstrap the environment. Therefore, you can check the logs of all application by running the following command on the component you want to monitor.
docker logs authelia_authelia-backend_1 -f
Then, edit the code and observe how Authelia is automatically reloaded.
Unit tests
To run the unit tests, run:
authelia-scripts unittest
Integration tests
Integration tests are located under the suites directory based on Selenium.
authelia-scripts suites test
You don't need to start the suite before testing it. Given you're not running any suite, just use the following command to test the Standalone suite.
authelia-scripts suites test Standalone
The suite will be spawned, tests will be run and then the suite will be teared down automatically.