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Campaign finance for everyone

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) releases information to the public about money that’s raised and spent in federal elections—that’s elections for US President, Senate, and House of Representatives.

Are you interested in seeing how much money a candidate raised? Or spent? How much debt they took on? Who contributed to their campaign? The FEC is the authoritative source for that information.

The new FEC.gov aims to make campaign finance information more accessible (and understandable) to all users.

FEC repositories

We welcome you to explore, make suggestions, and contribute to our code.

This repository, fec-cms, houses the content management system (CMS) for FEC.gov.

Get involved

We’re thrilled you want to get involved!

Set up

We are always trying to improve our documentation. If you have suggestions or run into problems please file an issue!

Project prerequisites

  1. Ensure you have the following requirements installed:

    • Python (the latest 3.10 release, which includes pip and and a built-in version of virtualenv called venv).
    • The latest long term support (LTS) or stable release of Node.js (which includes npm).
    • PostgreSQL (the latest 15 release).

  2. Set up your Node environment — learn how to do this with 18F’s Javascript Ecosystem Guide.

  3. Set up your Python environment — learn how to do this with 18F’s Python Ecosystem Guide.

  4. Clone this repository.

Install project dependencies

Use pip to install the Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Use npm to install JavaScript dependencies:

npm install

Give default user privileges to create database

If you would like your default user to create the database, alter their user role:

sudo su - postgres
psql
alter user [default_username] createdb;
\q
exit

Create local databases

Before you can run this project locally, you'll need a development database:

createdb cfdm_cms_test
Load our sample data into the local development database:

For details see the section below: Restoring your local database from a backup

Set environment variables

You will also need to set the environment variables:

Set local environment variables

Connection string for the local database as an environment variable:

export DATABASE_URL=postgresql://:@/cfdm_cms_test

running with openFEC API

By default, FEC_API_URL points to the local running instance of the API (http://localhost:5000). To set the URL for the API as an environment variable, run:

export FEC_API_URL=http://localhost:5000

Set it to either production, dev, or staging API URLs if you are not running the API locally.

for example: (prod API) https://api.open.fec.gov export FEC_API_URL=https://api.open.fec.gov

The base settings file will read this value in instead of using the default (which is http://localhost:5000).

Also set API keys: FEC_WEB_API_KEY_PRIVATE and FEC_WEB_API_KEY_PUBLIC

Finish project setup

Once all prerequisites and dependencies are installed, you can finish the project setup by running these commands:

npm run build
cd fec/
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser

Running the application

In the root project folder, run:

cd fec/
./manage.py runserver

Front End Development

Front end assets are all located in /fec/fec/static/*.

Icon building

Icons only need to be built if there are new SVG files in the /fec/fec/static/icons/input directory, which transforms that SVG file into a SCSS variable to be used on the stylesheets.

npm run build-icons

SCSS compilation

npm run build-sass

JavaScript compilation

npm run build-js

Compilation of both SCSS and JS files

npm run build

Command to watch for SCSS and JS changes

npm run watch

Running tests

There are two kinds of tests that you can run with the project, Python tests and JavaScript tests.

To run the JavaScript tests, run this command in the root project directory:

npm run test-single

Note: You may be prompted to allow node to accept connections; this is okay and required for the tests to run.

To run the Python tests, run this command in the root project directory:

pytest

It’s necessary to specify the Postgresql URL, which can be done on the command line, e.g.:

env DATABASE_URL=postgresql://:@/cfdm_cms_test pytest

pytest is configured to report test coverage automatically.

Enabling/toggling features

settings/base.py includes a set of FEATURES which can also be enabled using environment flags:

FEC_FEATURE_LEGAL=1 python fec/manage.py runserver

Additional local development instructions

Watch for static asset changes

To watch for changes to JavaScript files, run this command in the root project directory:

npm run watch

Restoring your local database from a backup

Likely only useful for FEC team members

Load our sample data into the local development database from a production backup

first download the web app sample database dump

FEC team can download from the project’s google drive folder: CMS DB Backups

then save the file to a local drive: <path/to/backup_file>

then run this command:

pg_restore --dbname cfdm_cms_test --no-acl --no-owner <path/to/backup_file>

Lastly run migrations to account for any very recent changes that are not present in the latest backup run this command: ./manage.py migrate

Generating code.json

Code.gov uses the code.json file located at fec.gov/code.json to inventory our repositories. The file is generated using LLNL’s scraper tool. Follow the instructions in scraper’s README file to generate a new code.json, or manually update as needed.

Scraper config file is in the root directory.

scraper --config code-gov-config.json

Examples of code.json files: https://github.com/GSA/code-gov/blob/master/METADATA_EXAMPLES.md

Deploy

Likely only useful for FEC team members

We use CircleCI for automated deploys after tests pass. If you want to deploy something it is much better to push an empty commit with a tag than doing a manual deploy.

If there is a problem with CircleCI and something needs to be deployed, you can do so with the following commands. Though, you will need to pull the environment variables from the space you are deploying to and remake your static assets. That will ensure things like the links are correct. You will also want to clear your dist/ directory. That way, you will not exceed the alloted space.

Before deploying, install version 7 of the Cloud Foundry CLI:

Provision development database:

cf create-service rds micro-psql fec-rds-stage

Provision credentials service:

cf cups cms-creds-dev -p '{"DJANGO_SECRET_KEY": "..."}'

To deploy to Cloud Foundry, run invoke deploy. The deploy task will attempt to detect the appropriate Cloud Foundry space based the current branch; to override, pass the optional --space flag:

invoke deploy --space feature

The deploy task will use the FEC_CF_USERNAME and FEC_CF_PASSWORD environment variables to log in. If these variables are not provided, you will be prompted for your Cloud Foundry credentials.

Deploys of a single app can be performed manually by targeting the env/space, and specifying the corresponding manifest, as well as the app you want, like so:

cf target -s [feature|dev|stage|prod] && cf push -f manifest_<[feature|dev|stage|prod]>.yml [api|cms]

NOTE: Performing a deploy in this manner will result in a brief period of downtime.

A note about deploying to the feature space

As noted above, you can manually deploy the application if you specify the space you want to deploy to, e.g., invoke deploy --space feature.

In the case of the feature space, there are a few things to note:

SSH

Likely only useful for FEC team members

You can SSH directly into the running app container to help troubleshoot or inspect things with the instance(s). Run the following command:

cf ssh <app name>

Where <app name> is the name of the application instance you want to connect to. Once you are logged into the remote secure shell, you'll also want to run this command to setup the shell environment correctly:

. /home/vcap/app/bin/cf_env_setup.sh

More information about using SSH with cloud.dov can be found in the cloud.gov SSH documentation.

Accounts

Accounts are handled in the cms admin. All accounts will be reviewed annually.

Licensing and attribution

A few parts of this project are not in the public domain. Attribution and licensing information for those parts are described in detail in LICENSE.md.

The rest of this project is in the worldwide public domain, released under the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication. Read more in LICENSE.md.

A few restrictions limit the way you can use FEC data. For example, you can't use contributor lists for commercial purposes or to solicit donations. Learn more on FEC.gov.