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# Zed Server

This crate is what we run at https://collab.zed.dev.

It contains our back-end logic for collaboration, to which we connect from the Zed client via a websocket after authenticating via https://zed.dev, which is a separate repo running on Vercel.

# Local Development

## Database setup

Before you can run the collab server locally, you'll need to set up a zed Postgres database. Follow the steps sequentially:

1. Ensure you have postgres installed. If not, install with `brew install postgresql@15`.
2. Follow the steps on Brew's formula and verify your `$PATH` contains `/opt/homebrew/opt/postgresql@15/bin`.
3. If you hadn't done it before, create the `postgres` user with `createuser -s postgres`.
4. You are now ready to run the `bootstrap` script:

```sh
script/bootstrap
```

This script will set up the `zed` Postgres database, and populate it with some users. It requires internet access, because it fetches some users from the GitHub API.

The script will create several _admin_ users, who you'll sign in as by default when developing locally. The GitHub logins for the default users are specified in the `seed.default.json` file.

To use a different set of admin users, create `crates/collab/seed.json`.

```json
{
  "admins": ["yourgithubhere"],
  "channels": ["zed"]
}
```

## Testing collaborative features locally

In one terminal, run Zed's collaboration server and the livekit dev server:

```sh
foreman start
```

In a second terminal, run two or more instances of Zed.

```sh
script/zed-local -2
```

This script starts one to four instances of Zed, depending on the `-2`, `-3` or `-4` flags. Each instance will be connected to the local `collab` server, signed in as a different user from `seed.json` or `seed.default.json`.

# Deployment

We run two instances of collab:

- Staging (https://staging-collab.zed.dev)
- Production (https://collab.zed.dev)

Both of these run on the Kubernetes cluster hosted in Digital Ocean.

Deployment is triggered by pushing to the `collab-staging` (or `collab-production`) tag in GitHub. The best way to do this is:

- `./script/deploy-collab staging`
- `./script/deploy-collab production`

You can tell what is currently deployed with `./script/what-is-deployed`.

# Database Migrations

To create a new migration:

```sh
./script/create-migration <name>
```

Migrations are run automatically on service start, so run `foreman start` again. The service will crash if the migrations fail.

When you create a new migration, you also need to update the [SQLite schema](./migrations.sqlite/20221109000000_test_schema.sql) that is used for testing.

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Title: Zed Collaboration Server: Setup, Local Development, Deployment, and Database Migrations
Summary
This document describes the Zed collaboration server, which powers the collaborative features of the Zed editor. It details the setup process, including database configuration and user seeding, instructions for testing collaborative features locally, the deployment process to staging and production environments on Kubernetes, and how to create and run database migrations.