Developer guide

This chapter discusses some topics of interest to developers working on extending, customizing or maintaining frePPLe.

• Architecture
• Using a Dev-Container
• Compiling on Linux
• Creating an extension app
  • Prerequisites
  • Download the tutorial app
  • Register your app
  • Run your docker container
  • Extend existing models with new fields
  • Define the database models
  • Create tables and fields in the database
  • Define a REST API for your models
  • Create editing forms for your models
  • Define new reports
  • Register the URLs of the new reports
  • Add the reports to the menu
  • Add demo data
  • Customize the plan generation
  • Add custom administration commands
  • Add unit tests
  • Even more information!
• Creating an custom theme
• Adding or customizing a report
  • General case
  • Using the frePPLe generic report
• Translating the user interface
  • For translators
  • For developers
• Planning algorithm
• Security
• Python API
• XML API