# moonstream backend ### Installation and setup To set up Moonstream API for development, do the following: - Clone the git repository - Install postgresql (https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/) #### Run server with Docker To be able to run Moonstream API with your existing local or development services as database, you need to build your own setup. **Be aware! The files with environment variables `docker.dev.env` lives inside your docker container!** - Copy `configs/sample.env` to `configs/docker.dev.env`, or use your local configs from `configs/dev.env` to `configs/docker.dev.env` - Edit in `docker.dev.env` file `MOONSTREAM_DB_URI` and other variables if required - Clean environment file from `export ` prefix and quotation marks to be able to use it with Docker ```bash sed --in-place 's|^export * ||' configs/docker.dev.env sed --in-place 's|"||g' configs/docker.dev.env ``` Build container on your machine ```bash docker build -t moonstreamapi-dev . ``` Run `moonstreamapi-dev` container, with following command we specified `--network="host"` setting which allows to Docker container use localhost interface of your machine (https://docs.docker.com/network/host/) ```bash docker run --name moonstreamapi-dev \ --network="host" \ --env-file="configs/docker.dev.env" \ -p 7481:7481/tcp \ -ti -d moonstreamapi-dev ``` Attach to container to see logs ```bash docker container attach moonstreamapi-dev ```