BraDypUS

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Knowledge base ​

Useful background knowledge for working with BraDypUS.

Relational databases ​

BraDypUS manages relational databases. Understanding basic concepts helps:

  • Table — a named collection of rows with fixed column structure
  • Column (field) — a named property with a specific data type
  • Row (record) — one entry in a table
  • Primary key — a unique identifier for each row (BraDypUS always uses id)
  • Foreign key — a column that references the id of another table

JSON ​

Application configuration is stored in JSON (config.json). Print templates are also JSON. You do not need to edit JSON manually — the UI handles it — but familiarity helps when troubleshooting.

Markdown ​

The welcome page (welcome.md) is written in Markdown. Basic syntax:

# Heading
**bold** *italic*
- list item
[link text](https://example.com)

Docker ​

BraDypUS runs in Docker containers. Basic commands:

bash
docker compose up -d        # start in background
docker compose down         # stop
docker compose logs -f app  # follow PHP logs
docker compose exec app bash # shell inside the PHP container

HTTP and REST ​

The BraDypUS backend is a JSON REST API. All communication between the Vue frontend and the PHP backend uses HTTP requests with JSON bodies and JWT tokens in the Authorization header.