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Substra


Substra is an open source federated learning (FL) software. It provides a flexible Python interface and a web application to run federated learning training at scale. This specific repository is about the web application - also called frontend.

Support

If you need support, please either raise an issue on Github or ask on Slack.

Contributing

Substra warmly welcomes any contribution. Feel free to fork the repo and create a pull request.

Setup

Running the frontend in a local kubernetes cluster in prod mode

  1. Make sure substra-frontend.org-1.com and substra-frontend.org-2.com are pointing to the cluster's ip in your /etc/hosts: a. If you use minikube, minikube ip will give you the cluster's ip b. If you use k3s, the cluster ip is 127.0.0.1
  2. Execute skaffold [run|dev]. You can use the dev skaffold profile (via -p dev) to use the dev docker target which serves files using vite instead nginx and benefits from hot reloading inside the cluster.
  3. Access the frontend at http://substra-frontend.org-1.com

Running the frontend locally in dev mode

  1. Make sure substra-frontend.org-1.com and substra-frontend.org-2.com are pointing to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts
  2. Make sure you're using node 18.16.0 (nvm install 18.16.0 and nvm use 18.16.0)
  3. Install dependencies: npm install --dev
  4. Run npm run dev
  5. Access the frontend at http://substra-frontend.org-1.com:3000

Note: Backend is expected to be served at http://substra-backend.org-1.comon http port (80). In case you are using a development backend served on another url or port, you can set it using API_URL env var. ex: API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000 npm run dev

Alternatively you can run it inside a container by using dev target.

docker build -f docker/substra-frontend/Dockerfile --target dev -t substra-frontend .
docker run -it --rm -p 3000:3000 -v ${PWD}/src:/workspace/src substra-frontend

Note: Use -e API_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000 to specify another backend URL.

Using a specific branch / commit of the backend and/or orchestrator

Many developments done in the frontend go hand in hand with API changes coming from either the backend or the orchestrator. These changes aren't always available in the last release and sometimes aren't even merged in the main branches. In order to use them, you'll need to:

  1. Check out the branches / commits in your local clones of the repos
  2. In each repo, run skaffold run (with your usual options, for example -p single-org for substra-backend)

Generic dump/restore commands

To dump the orchestrator DB into orchestrator.sql:

# Example with an 'org-1' organization and an orchestrator's postgres pod with name 'orchestrator-org-1-postgresql-0'
kubectl exec -n org-1 -i orchestrator-org-1-postgresql-0 -- pg_dump --clean --no-owner postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/orchestrator > orchestrator.sql

To dump the backend DB of org-1 into backend.sql:

# Example with an `org-1` organization and a backend's postgres pod with name `backend-org-1-postgresql-0`
kubectl exec -n org-1 -i backend-org-1-postgresql-0 -- pg_dump --clean --no-owner postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/substra > backend.sql

To restore the orchestrator DB from orchestrator.sql:

# Example with an `org-1` organization and an orchestrator's postgres pod with name `orchestrator-org-1-postgresql-0`
cat orchestrator.sql| kubectl exec -n org-1 -i orchestrator-org-1-postgresql-0 -- psql postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/orchestrator

To restore the backend DB of org-1 from backend.sql:

# Example with an `org-1` organization and a backend's postgres pod with name `backend-org-1-postgresql-0`
cat backend.sql| kubectl exec -n org-1 -i backend-org-1-postgresql-0 -- psql postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/substra

Development setup

Git hooks

Run npm run prepare to install git hooks that will format code using prettier.

VSCode plugins

Since we're using emotion for CSS in JS, you should install the vscode-styled-components plugin. It provides intellisense and syntax highlighting for styled components.

Authentication

When logging in, the backend will set 3 cookies:

  • refresh (httpOnly)
  • signature (httpOnly)
  • header.payload

In order to fetch data, you then have to send back both refresh and signature as cookies (automatically handled by the browser) and header.payload in an Authorization header with the JWT prefix.

E.g. Authorization: JWT eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjIxNjY5MDQ3LCJqdGkiOiJiYzAzNjU1NTJkNzc0ZmJjYTBmYmUwOTQ5Y2QwMGVhZiIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjF9

CI

The CI will build all commits on the main branch as "unstable" builds, with the version from package.json. Builds are a Docker image + a Helm chart.

Tagged commits will be made into full release (not marked as "unstable" and with a GitHub release). Typically, git tag 1.2.3 && git push origin 1.2.3 should be enough.

More info

How to generate the changelog

The changelog is managed with towncrier, a Python tool. To add a new entry in the changelog, add a file in the changes folder. The file name should have the following structure: <unique_id>.<change_type>. The unique_id is a unique identifier, we currently use the PR number. The change_type can be of the following types: added, changed, removed, fixed.

To generate the changelog (for example during a release), you need to have towncrier installed. You can either install it in a virtual env, or use pipx (please refer to pipx documentation for installation instructions).

$ pipx install towncrier

Then use the following command :

towncrier build --version=<x.y.z>

You can use the --draft option to see what would be generated without actually writing to the changelog (and without removing the fragments).

Tests

Unit tests

They are written using Jest in files ending in .test.ts. These files live next to the module / component they test.

To run these tests:

npx vite-dev

or using our alias:

npm run test:unit

E2E tests

They are written using Cypress. All E2E tests are under e2e-tests/cypress/integration/ and end in .spec.js.

To install cypress, move to the e2e-tests folder and run npm install.

Then, still in this folder:

  • run these tests using npx cypress run or npm run test:e2e
  • run these tests in dev mode using npx cypress open

Microsoft Clarity

In order to use microsoft clarity, you need to have a clarity ID that you can then use as such.

Locally:

MICROSOFT_CLARITY_ID=xxxxxxxxxx npm run dev

In production:

You'll have to define the microsoftClarity.id value.