Data Management Toolkit

Before you install, see the Installing system prerequisites guide to make sure you have all required system packages installed.

To run the server, you must install the following python packages:

pip install pymongo cherrypy bcrypt

Before you can build the client-side code project, you must install the Grunt command line utilities:

npm install -g grunt grunt-cli

Then cd into the root of the repository and run:

npm install

Finally, when all node packages are installed, run:

grunt init

To build the client side code, run the following command from within the repository:

grunt

Run this command any time you change a JavaScript or CSS file under clients/web.

To run the server, first make sure the mongo daemon is running. To manually start it, run:

mongod &

Then, just run:

python -m girder

Then open http://localhost:8080/ in your web browser, and you should see the application.