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Dev on Host

Follow these instructions to get the complete Medplum stack running directly on your host machine.

Prerequisites​

  1. Install npm: See the npm documentation for instructions on installing it with your OS.
  2. Clone the Medplum repo

Notes for Windows users​

Running on Windows is supported, but it has a few extra steps:

  • Redis does not support Windows, so considered using Memurai
  • Several build tools use bash scripts, so consider using MSYS2

Install​

Our monorepo uses npm workspaces, so installing dependencies for all projects is done using normal npm install:

cd medplum
npm ci

Build​

We provide convenience shell scripts to perform a full build and test:

./scripts/build.sh

This will do the following:

  • Install npm dependencies if not already installed
  • Build all packages
  • Run all tests
  • Run linter

Run​

Background services​

First, make sure that PostgreSQL and Redis are running.

Use the supplied docker-compose-background.yml file to run PostgreSQL and Redis background services. These services will be deployed with all necessary medplum configurations and database migrations.

From your root medplum directory run

docker-compose -f docker-compose-background.yml up

When docker-compose completes, you should see something like this in your terminal:

server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.224Z Run database migrations
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.477Z No keys found.  Creating new key...
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.582Z Create user admin@example.com
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.639Z Created: 875bc82d-f5a3-49e3-bd36-c6aad1ba96cb
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.639Z Create project Medplum
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.650Z Created: 1bef07a1-b521-4130-9b33-884f90339ee8
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.651Z Create practitioner: Medplum Admin
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.671Z Created: 3cc2a03a-30c3-456f-9b3b-63c9b7b88caa
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.672Z Create project membership: Medplum
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.682Z Created: 93502aad-0b44-428d-b925-3b9b0fad5ad6
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.682Z Create default client Medplum
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.693Z Created: 301226d4-e139-408c-a61a-7bf06693515d
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.704Z Create Public project...
server_1    | INFO 2022-01-28T19:08:42.714Z Created: 52e4ac94-0f00-4f49-b1ed-469a8e8d78f2

This will seed the medplum database with an example project and user. The email and password for the example user are:

Deploying manually​

  1. Install PostgreSQL: See the PostgreSQL documentation for instructions on installing it with your OS.
  2. Install Redis: See the Redis documentation for instructions on installing it with your OS.

Start the servers​

Start the API server:

cd packages/server
npm run dev

You can access the healthcheck at http://localhost:5000/healthcheck

Develop the web UI​

Start the web frontend:

cd packages/app
npm run dev

You can access the app at http://localhost:3000/