If you see a step below that could be improved (or is outdated), please update the instructions. We rarely go through this process ourselves, so your fresh pair of eyes and your recent experience with it, makes you the best candidate to improve them for other users. Thank you!

1. Make sure you have Node.js version >= 18. We recommend using version 18, the one used in CI and production.

• We recommend using nvm: nvm install.

2. Make sure you have GraphicsMagick installed.

• On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick
• On MacOS (with Homebrew): brew install graphicsmagick

We recommend cloning the repository in a folder dedicated to opencollective projects.

git clone git@github.com:opencollective/opencollective-images.git opencollective/images
cd opencollective/images
npm install

This project requires an access to the Open Collective API.

By default, it will try to connect to the Open Colllective staging API, you don’t have to change anything.

If case you want to connect to the Open Collective API running locally:

• clone, install and start opencollective-api
• in this project, copy .env.local to .env.

npm run dev

Code style? Commit convention? Please check our Contributing guidelines.

TL;DR: we use Prettier and ESLint, we do like great commit messages and clean Git history.

You can run the tests using npm test.

To deploy to staging or production, you need to be a core member of the Open Collective team.

We’re currently relying on the following Heroku buildpacks:

• https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-apt
• https://github.com/MikeKoval/heroku-buildpack-graphicsmagick
• heroku/nodejs

# Before first deployment, configure staging remote
git remote add staging https://git.heroku.com/oc-staging-image-server.git

# Then deploy main with
npm run deploy:staging

• URL: https://images-staging.opencollective.com/

# Before first deployment, configure production remote
git remote add production https://git.heroku.com/oc-prod-image-server.git

# Then deploy main with
npm run deploy:production

• URL: https://images.opencollective.com/