First you should clone this repo, and then do the following steps to run the backend and front end

1. Enter the directory of backend(./backend)
2. Install ghostscript, mysql and flask. If you are using ubuntu, you can run:

sudo apt install ghostscript mysql-server python3-flask

3. Install the python package required by running:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Setup mysql and create a database for this project
5. Create temp folder storage folder in the root directory of backend
6. Create instance/config.py, and config following this template

DEBUG = False
SECRET_KEY = 'dev'                  # Just as an example, not the value we actually use
SALT = 'dev'                        # Just as an example, not the value we actually use
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRES_IN = 1800
REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRES_IN = 86400

DATABASE = {
    'host': 'localhost',
    'port': 3306,
    'user': 'root',
    'passwd': 'my_pass_word_for_mysql',
    'db': 'the_database_to_use'
}
TEMP_PATH = r'/.../temp'  # must be a absolute path
STORAGE_PATH = r'/.../storage'  # must be a absolute path

3. Run flask init-db to create tables
4. Run flask run

1. Enter the directory of frontend(./frontend)
2. Install npm. If you are using ubuntu, you can install it by the following instruction:

sudo apt install npm

3. Setup frontend by the following instructions:

npm install
npm install axios

4. Begin to serve by the following command:

npm run serve

If you are just testing it on your local computer, you can ignore the follow steps, and access localhost:8080 to use EasyFile.

If you want to deploy this system on a server, you should do the follow things:

1. Find all localhost:5000 in the code of file *.vue of frontend and replace them with ip:port(the ip address must can be access by the clients)
2. Run the backend by flask run -p port -h 0.0.0.0 rather than above
3. Build the frontend by:

npm run build

4. Setup a nginx server (If you are not so sensitive to loading speed, you can ingore 3. and 4. and run front end by npm run serve)