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# Webapp

April 5, 2026
About 2 min

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- Installation
- - Build for Development
  - Build for Production
  - Run tests
- Maintenance Mode
- Styleguide Migration
- - Folder Structure

# Webapp

UI Screenshot

## Installation

For preparation you need a recent version of Node. We are using `v25.3.0` and recommend to use node version manager `nvm` to switch between different local Node versions:

    # install Node using '.nvmrc' file
    $ cd webapp
    $ nvm install
    $ nvm use

Install node dependencies with yarn:

    # install all dependencies
    $ cd webapp
    $ yarn install
    # or just
    $ yarn
    # or just later on to use version of ".nvmrc" file
    $ nvm use && yarn

Copy:

    # in webapp
    cp .env.template .env

Configure the files according to your needs and your local setup.

### Build for Development

    # serve with hot reload at localhost:3000
    $ yarn dev

### Build for Production

    # build for production and launch server
    $ yarn build
    $ yarn start

### Run tests

We ensure the quality of our frontend code by using

- ESLint for checking our JavaScript code
- Jest and Vue Test Utils to unit test our components
- Storybook to document and manually test our components in an isolated playground

For more information see our frontend testing guide. Use these commands to run the tests:

::: tabs @tab:active With Docker

After starting the application following the above guidelines, open new terminal windows for each of these commands:

    # run eslint
    $ docker-compose exec webapp yarn lint

    # run unit tests
    $ docker-compose exec webapp yarn test

    # start storybook
    $ docker-compose exec webapp yarn storybook

You can then visit the Storybook playground on `http://localhost:3002`

@tab title Without Docker

After starting the application following the above guidelines, open new terminal windows and navigate to the `/webapp` directory for each of these commands:

    # run eslint in /webapp (use option --fix to normalize the files)
    $ yarn lint

    # run unit tests in /webapp
    $ yarn test

    # run locales in /webapp (use option --fix to sort the locales)
    $ yarn locales

    # start storybook in /webapp
    $ yarn storybook

You can then visit the Storybook playground on `http://localhost:3002`

:::

## Maintenance Mode

For installing and running the maintenance mode see Maintenance Mode.

## Styleguide Migration

We are currently in the process of migrating our styleguide components and design tokens from the Nitro Styleguide into the main ocelot.social repository and refactoring our components in the process. During this migration, our new components will live in a `_new/` folder to separate them from the old, yet untouched components.

### Folder Structure

The folder structure we are following is prescribed by Nuxt.js:

- assets contains icons, images and logos in `svg` format and all shared SCSS files such as `tokens`
- components separated into two sub-folders:
  - generic are the generic building blocks of the app – small, reusable and usually not coupled to state
  - features are composed of components but tied to a particular function of the app (e.g. `comment` or `post`)
- layouts can use components to create layout templates for pages
- pages are the entry points for all `routes` in the app and are composed of layouts, features and components