DEVELOPMENT.md

Development

• First time...
  • Setup
  • Startup
• Debugging the backend (VSC)
• Deploy changes
  • Frontend
  • Backend

First time...

Setup

Checkout the repository and navigate to the youtubedl-material directory.

vim ./src/assets/default.json # Edit settings for your local environment. This config file is just the dev config file, if YTDL_MODE is not set to "debug", then ./backend/appdata/default.json will be used
npm -g install pm2 # Install pm2
npm install # Install dependencies for the frontend
cd ./backend
npm install # Install dependencies for the backend
cd ..
npm run build # Build the frontend

This step have to be done only once.

Startup

Navigate to the youtubedl-material/backend directory and run npm start.

Debugging the backend (VSC)

Open the youtubedl-material directory in Visual Studio Code and run the launch configuration Dev: Debug Backend.

Deploy changes

Frontend

Navigate to the youtubedl-material directory and run npm run build. Restart the backend.

Backend

Simply restart the backend.