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This is the new Turtl server. It handles a number of things for Turtl clients:

• Account management (join/login/delete)
• Data storage
• Syncing
• Permissions and sharing

It implements a plugin architecture so things like analytics and payment processing can be used without forcing a particular method/service.

The Turtl server requires Node >= 8 and a Postgres instance (>= 9.6) with a dedicated user/db set up for it.

Once you have Node and Postgres set up, do the following:

mkdir turtl
cd turtl
git clone https://github.com/turtl/server
cd server/
npm install
cp config/config.yaml.default config/config.yaml

Now edit config/config.yaml as needed. You'll want to main get your db settings correct, and uploads/s3 sections configured. Also, be sure to change app.secure_hash_salt (unless you're going to be running the integration tests against this server).

Now do:

# create the plugin directory from config.yaml#plugins.plugin_location
mkdir /path/to/plugin/dir    # (usually just plugins/ in turtl/server/)
./scripts/init-db.sh
node server.js

Great, done.

If you want to run the integration tests against this instance of the server you need to do two things:

1. Leave the app.secure_hash_salt value as it appears in config.yaml.default
2. Run node tools/populate-test.data.js