Developer Setup

The following describes how to set up an instance of the site on your computer for development with Docker.

Warning

These installation steps are made for development only. It is not recommended to run Pontoon via Docker in production.

Prerequisites

Install Docker.
Install Node.js 14 and npm 7 or later.
Install make using either your system’s package manager (Linux) or Xcode command line developer tools (OSX). On Windows, you can use MozillaBuild.

Quickstart

Clone the Pontoon repository:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon.git
```
Note

To contribute changes to the project, you will need to fork the repository under your own GitHub account.
From the root of the repository, run:
```
$ make build
```
That will install Pontoon’s JS dependencies, build the frontend packages, and build the server container.

Note

If you want to share your development instance in your local network, set SITE_URL to bind the server to any address you like, e.g. make build SITE_URL="http://192.168.1.14:8000".
Run the webapp:
```
$ make run
```
Note

The first time you run this, the PostgreSQL container needs to do some work before it becomes available to the server container. Hence, the server might not be able to perform things like migrations. You can simply wait for the postgresql container to report that it’s ready, then abort the process, then restart it. That should let the server do all its setup as expected.

Alternatively, you can run docker-compose up postgresql and wait until it reports that the database is ready, then stop that and run make run.
Finally, you need to run some setup steps, while the server is running:
```
$ make setup
```
This will ask you to create a superuser, and then will update your Firefox account settings.

The app should now be available at http://localhost:8000 or the custom SITE_URL.

And with that, you’re ready to start Contributing!

Installing Docker on Windows Pro/Enterprise/Education

Install Docker Desktop for Windows.

Install tools (git, make, cygwin)

The easiest way is to use a package manager like Chocolatey. Follow the installation instructions for Windows Powershell (Admin), then run choco install make git cygwin to install all packages.

Follow the prompt requests allowing script execution. At the end, verify that packages are available with make --version and git --version, it should return a version for each command.

At this point you need to disable the config core.autocrlf before cloning the Pontoon repository, otherwise all files will use Windows line-endings (CRLF), and docker images will fail to build. To do so, open a Powershell as Admin (right click on the Start Menu, select Windows Powershell (Admin)), and run:

git config --system --unset core.autocrlf
git config --global core.autocrlf false

You can use git config -l to verify that the value for core.autocrlf is correctly set.

At this point, you can open the Cygwin64 Terminal and proceed with the installation (the content of C: will be available in /cygdrive/c). Once the Docker image is running, Pontoon’s instance will be available at http://localhost:8000.

Installing Docker on Windows Home x64 (deprecated)

These instructions rely on the installation of a deprecated tool called Docker Toolbox, since the official installer (Docker Desktop for Windows) is only compatible with Windows Pro, Enterprise, or Education.

Once installed, it will create a Docker Quickstart Terminal icon on the Desktop that can be used to start a terminal.

While git is installed as part of Docker Toolbox, you need to disable the config core.autocrlf before cloning the Pontoon repository, otherwise all files will use Windows line-endings (CRLF), and docker images will fail to build. To do so, open a Powershell as Admin (right click on the Start Menu, select Windows Powershell (Admin)), and run:

git config --system --unset core.autocrlf
git config --global core.autocrlf false

Install make

The easiest way is to use a package manager like Chocolatey. Follow the installation instructions for Windows Powershell (Admin), then run choco install make to install make.

Follow the prompt requests allowing script execution. At the end, verify that make is available with make --version, it should return a version (e.g. GNU Make 4.2.1)

Repository Path and SITE_URL

Make sure to clone the repository in a path where the user has write permissions. The procedure has been tested with the clone inside the user’s home (c:\Users\username). Otherwise, the image might fail to load the correct volumes.

Since Pontoon will be running inside a VirtualBox machine, in order to access Pontoon the Docker image needs to be build with a SITE_URL using the IP of the machine.

The IP of the virtual machine is displayed when starting Docker Quickstart Terminal, or can be retrieved using the command docker-machine ip default. For example, if the IP is 192.168.99.100, the Docker image should be built with make build SITE_URL="http://192.168.99.100:8000". Pontoon’s instance will be then available at http://192.168.99.100:8000 from Windows.