# Quackscape - A panoramic content management system for the web.

Quackscape is a content management system for panoramic/VR photos and videos. It is designed to be a simple and easy to use platform for sharing panoramic content on the web. It is built using the Django web framework and is designed to be easily deployable on a variety of platforms.

## Requirements

- Python 3.8+
- Redis
- NodeJS / NPM
- ffmpeg (for video processing)
- MariaDB or MySQL (optional but recommended)
- A web server (Caddy, gunicorn, Nginx, Apache, etc.) (optional but recommended)

## Development Setup

1. Clone the repository

2. Create a virtual environment and install the requirements

```bash
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

3. Install the frontend dependencies

```bash
npm install
```

4. Copy `settings.dist.ini` to `settings.ini` and fill in the required settings

5. Run the migrations

```bash
python manage.py migrate
```

6. Compile the frontend assets

```bash
npm run build:dev
```

If you are working on the frontend, you can instead use the `npm run watch:dev` command to automatically recompile the frontend assets when they change.

7. Run the development server

```bash
python manage.py rundev
```

8. Create a superuser

```bash
python manage.py createsuperuser
```

9. Visit `http://localhost:8000` in your web browser

## Production Setup

As this is still quite a ways from a stable project, we do not include production setup steps here. Very fundamentally, the production setup would be similar to the development setup. However, there are a few differences:

- Instead of `npm run build:dev`, you should run `npm run build`.
- You should make sure to configure a database such as MariaDB or MySQL. You should not use the default SQLite database in production.
- Instead of `python manage.py runserver`, you should use a production-ready web server such as Caddy and gunicorn.
- Instead of `python manage.py runserver`, you will want to use the `python manage.py runworker` command to start the background worker process.
- You may want to use systemd or another process manager to keep the server and worker processes running in the background.

## Workers

Quackscape uses a background worker to process uploaded photos and videos. You can start the worker process using the `python manage.py runworker` command.

You may want to run the worker process on another machine. The server part is not very resource-hungry, so it can easily run on a VPS, but for video processing, you may want to use a machine with more resources, ideally with a powerful GPU.

To run the worker process on another machine, you first follow the basic setup instructions on that machine as well, then add a line like this to the worker's `settings.ini`:

```ini
[Quackscape]
Redis = redis://<redis-ip>:6379/0
```

Replace `<redis-ip>` with the IP address of the machine running the Redis server. This way, the worker will be able to fetch tasks from the same Redis server the Quackscape server is writing them to.

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.