budibase/docs/DEV-SETUP-DEBIAN.md

Dev Environment on Debian 11

Install NVM & Node 14

NVM documentation: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-and-updating

Install NVM

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.0/install.sh | bash

Install Node 14

nvm install 14

Install npm requirements

npm install -g yarn jest lerna

Install Docker and Docker Compose

apt install docker.io
pip3 install docker-compose

Clone the repo

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

Check Versions

This setup process was tested on Debian 11 (bullseye) with version numbers show below. Your mileage may vary using anything else.

• Docker: 20.10.5
• Docker-Compose: 1.29.2
• Node: v14.20.1
• Yarn: 1.22.19
• Lerna: 5.1.4

Build

cd budibase
yarn setup

The yarn setup command runs several build steps i.e.

node ./hosting/scripts/setup.js && yarn && yarn build && yarn dev

So this command will actually run the application in dev mode. It creates .env files under ./packages/server and ./packages/worker and runs docker containers for each service via docker-compose.

The dev version will be available on port 10000 i.e.

http://127.0.0.1:10000/builder/admin

File descriptor issues with Vite and Chrome in Linux

If your dev environment stalls forever, with some network requests stuck in flight, it's likely that Chrome is trying to open more file descriptors than your system allows. To fix this, apply the following tweaks.

Debian based distros: Add * - nofile 65536 to /etc/security/limits.conf.

Arch: Add DefaultLimitNOFILE=65536 to /etc/systemd/system.conf.