Getting Started for Contributors

Install requires node-gyp, due to a dependancy on argon2

1. Prerequisites

nodegyp -

• Windows - https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows
• Ubuntu sudo apt-get install build-essentials
• Mac: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-macos

yarn - npm install -g yarn

lerna - npm install -g lerna

jest - npm install -g jest

2. Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:Budibase/budibase.git

then cd into your local copy...

3. Install and Build

lerna bootstrap will install all modules

lerna run build will build all packages

lerna run initialise will initialise your budibase (i.e. create local database)

4. Running

lerna run dev:builder - will run up the builder and server together - i.e. when you want to do some work on the builder

Documentation

A work in progress, lives here: https://docs.budibase.com