Boneless Pharmacy

Pharmacy Software for the Modern Era

What is Boneless Pharmacy?

Boneless Pharmacy is a simple, portable pharmacy server solution for working with sales data, especially in a pharmaceutical setting. Using Boneless Pharmacy, businesses are able to input, read, edit and process retail data in an easy to understand, readable manner. Boneless Pharmacy is made to work with your existing POS solution, taking only minutes to deploy.

Out of the box, Boneless Pharmacy features

• A fully featured user interface for interacting with all parts of the solution
• Pre-configured employee account roles
• A secure, powerful, flexible set of API endpoints for interacting with the solution from any solution
• An easy to manage, file-based SQLite database system

It is with these features and more that Boneless Pharmacy aims to not only be a powerful sales tool but a fully fledged business intelligence tool.

Further documentation can be found in our Wiki

Getting Started

You'll need nodejs and npm to work with the frontend solution and it's recommended you have typescript as well.

If you have chocolatey on Windows just run the following in an elevated shell;

choco install nodejs -y

Linux can be a fickle beast with install nodejs so maybe look it up.

Once you have nodejs and npm you'll be able to run the following command (in an elevated shell) on any OS to get typescript;

npm install typescript -g

For the backend, install .NET Core and the SDK.

Note that Boneless Pharmacy relies on ASP.Net Core 2.0, meaning that development at a minimum need .NET Core 2.0 installed

Building & Running the Solution (Frontend)

1. Run npm install in the root directory of the frontend solution
2. If you are using VSCode pressing Ctrl + Shift + B to run TypeScript's watcher compiler. If you are using the command line run : tsc --watch
3. Once this command has been run you should see a file called bundle.js in the js folder of your application. Running a server in the root directory will now show the home page if you go to http://localhost/app

Building & Running the Solution (Backend)

1. Run dotnet restore in the root directory of the backend solution
2. Once restored, run dotnet ef database update to update the current state of the Entity Framework solution to the newest build
3. To run the solution in the built in dev server, just use dotnet run
   • Note that you can use dotnet watch run to have the code recompile on change rather than having to run the server again

Running a Production Build (Backend)

Production builds are handled by a build system known as Cake. To edit the build script, a series of steps explaining what needs to be done for a build, just edit backend/build.cake. To build the solution using Cake just run the build.ps1 script inside the backend folder.