Development

If you’re interested in developing, contributing or simply want to run nefarious without docker then follow these instructions.

nefarious is built on:

• Python 3.8
• Django 3
• Angular 10
• Bootstrap 4

Note: Review the Dockerfile for all the necessary development dependencies.

Install python dependencies

This assumes you’re either installing these packages in your global python environment (in which case you probably need to use sudo) or, even better, install a virtual environment first.

pip install -r src/requirements.txt

Build database

python src/manage.py migrate

Run nefarious init script

This creates a default user and pass (admin/admin).

python src/manage.py nefarious-init admin admin@localhost admin

Build front-end resources

First install the frontend dependencies:

npm --prefix src/frontend install

Then build the frontend html/css stuff (angular):

npm --prefix src/frontend run build

Note: run npm --prefix src/frontend run watch to automatically rebuild while you’re developing the frontend stuff.

Run nefarious

Basic development server

This method is the default Django development server but doesn’t support websockets.

DEBUG=1 python src/manage.py runserver 8000

It’ll be now running at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Development server with websockets

This method runs the production server (with hot reload) and supports websockets.

Collect all the static assets:

python src/manage.py collectstatic --noinput

Run the server:

uvicorn nefarious.asgi:application --reload

It’ll be now running at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Run celery (task queue)

Celery is a task queue and is used by nefarious to queue downloads, monitor for things, etc.

Run the celery server:

cd src
DEBUG=1 celery -A nefarious worker --loglevel=INFO

You’ll see all download logs/activity come out of here.

NOTE: Prefix WEBSOCKET_HOST=ws://localhost:8000/ws if you’re using the websocket version of the server so the celery tasks can send websocket messages.

NOTE: By prefixing DEBUG=1 before the celery command, all torrents will start as paused to avoid downloading anything.

Dependencies

Jackett, Redis and Transmission are expected to be running somewhere.

You can download and run them manually, or, for simplicity, I’d just run them via docker using the docker-compose.yml file.

Run redis, jackett and transmission from the docker-compose.yml file:

docker-compose up -d redis jackett transmission