Build instructions?

[pruchai]

I have an LED matrix running off of a RPi 3B+ with FPP. Figured I could do some cool stuff with prolink-tools on it.

Do you happen to have instructions on how to build it to run headless on RPi?

[evanpurkhiser]

Sorry I don't have any build instructions for a headless mode quite yet :(

[GameGrime]

Can you provide instructions on how to build in a windows visual studio code environment? Reading through the code it seems like there's a few features that are 80% of the way to completion and I want to try my hand at modifying it. Just cant get the build / install / rebuild working from a windows visual studio code environment.

This is my first time using electron / nodejs / typescript, so even a gettting started guide, all the ones I've found so far don't really apply to this project well.

[evanpurkhiser]

I would recommend using Visual Studio Code for the project.

(The following instructions don't seem to work at the moment due to some broken versions of things. I will try and get it working again if I have some time in the next few days)

1. Follow the instructions to install Volta: https://volta.sh/ (This is important!)
2. Using the VS Code terminal, navigate to your clone of the project
3. run yarn install
4. run yarn start-dev. (wait for everything to start. As long as it doesn't exit it is OK)
5. In a new terminal tab run yarn start

If everything goes well it should open the app. From here you can edit files. The frontend will automatically reload. Changes to the "main" app will require you to quit the app and run yarn start again.