nocobase/README.md

What is NocoBase

NocoBase is an open source and free no-code development platform. Whether you are a business executive who does not know programming or a developer who is proficient in programming, you can quickly build various customized and privately deployed collaboration platforms and management systems.

Who is NocoBase for

• SMEs and organizations
  • Proficient in the business of their organization or industry
  • Looking to build digital systems
• IT service providers and outsourcing teams
  • Provide digital upgrade for SMEs and organizations
  • Have development capabilities

When to use Nocobase

• SMEs and organizations build business platforms and management systems for themselves or for their industry
  • Want the price to be low enough or even free
  • Can be flexibly customized without programming knowledge
  • Need full control of source code and data
  • Can freely distribute and sell as their own products
• Service providers and outsourcing teams develop collaboration platforms and management systems for their clients
  • Want to keep development costs as low as possible
  • Need the most user-friendly secondary development experience
  • Must be deployed privately as a standalone product for the client
  • Can be freely distributed and sold by the client

Why choose NocoBase

• Open source and free
  • Unrestricted commercial use under the MIT license
  • Full code ownership, private deployment, private and secure data
  • Free to expand and develop for actual needs
  • Good ecological support
• Strong no-code capability
  • More advanced codeless architecture, both flexible and easy to use, can make a powerful system even if you don't know programming
  • Support tables, calendars, forms, details, statistical charts and other types of views freely combined into the page
  • Unlimited hierarchical configuration of navigation menus, allowing flexible organization of pages
  • Precise configuration of data manipulation rights, access rights to pages and menus
• Developer-friendly
  • Microkernel architecture, flexible and easy to extend, with a robust plug-in system
  • Node.js-based, using mainstream frameworks and technologies, including Koa, Sequelize, React, Ant Design, etc.
  • Progressive development, low start-up difficulty, friendly to newcomers
  • No abduction, no strong dependencies, can be used in any combination or extensions, can be used in existing projects

Development

Install Dependencies

# Install dependencies for root project
npm i

# Install dependencies for sub packages via lerna
npm run bootstrap

Set Environment Variables

cp .env.example .env

Build

# for all packages
npm run build

# for specific package
npm run build <package_name_1> <package_name_2> ...

Test

# For all packages
npm test

# For specific package
npm test packages/<name>