Ajasta is a simple invoicing application built with the latest technologies on the market. It comes with a simple client and project management, allows you to quickly create new invoices and send them to you clients as PDFs. A templating system allows you to have your invoices look exactly the way you want them to.

The basic installations requires the following primary tools:

• npm (https://www.npmjs.org)
• composer (https://getcomposer.org)
• Liquibase (http://www.liquibase.org)

Additionally, the following global npm packages are required:

• npm install -g grunt-cli
• npm install -g bower

Next you need to run npm, bower and composer to install all required packages:

• npm install
• bower install
• composer install

Now that you've got all packages in place, you need to compile the assets:

• grunt compile

Those were all the prerequisites. Everything left is setting up the database:

• Create a new database
• Copy local.php.dist to local.php in the /config/autoload directory and fill out all values
• Run Liquibase (in this example with the MySQL driver):

liquibase --driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver \
          --url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/DATABASE" \
          --username=USERNAME \
          --password=PASSWORD \
          --changeLogFile=db/db.changelog-master.xml \
          update

That's pretty much all. Now just set up a virtual host and point it to the /public directory. And for the obligatory last step:

• Profit! (seriously, start writing invoices)

If you want to contribute to the project, the above steps are usually enough. If you want to work on the JavaScript or stylesheets, there is a helpful grunt task which will watch for changes and automatically compiles:

grunt watch (this is the default task, you can also just run grunt)

This application is currently work in progress, and just here to demonstrate what's already implemented. Here's a (likely incomplete) list of what's still left to do:

• Contacts
• Invoices
• Users (lowest priority, keep it protected with htpasswd for now)
• PDF templates