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Note For developing & building desktop client app, please refer to building-desktop-client-app.md
AFFiNE client has both Node.js & Rust toolchains.
We suggest develop our product under node.js LTS(Long-term support) version
install Node LTS version
Up to now, the major node.js version is 18.x
install nvm
nvm install 18
nvm use 18
Please follow the official guide at https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install.
This setup requires modern yarn (currently 3.x
), run this if your yarn version is 1.x
Reference: Yarn installation doc
corepack enable
corepack prepare yarn@stable --activate
# install dependencies
yarn install
Run the following script. It will build the native module at /packages/native
and build Node.js binding using NAPI.rs.
This could take a while if you build it for the first time.
Note: use strip
from system instead of binutils
if you are running MacOS. see problem here
yarn workspace @affine/native build
yarn run build:plugins
You need to run two scripts to run the app in development mode
Firstly, run the web app which is served at :8080
yarn dev # you may want to chose `dev - 100.84.105.99:11001` when selecting the dev server
Secondly, bring up the electron app
yarn workspace @affine/electron dev
If everything goes well, you should see the AFFiNE App window popping up in a few seconds. 🎉
Adding test cases is strongly encouraged when you contribute new features and bug fixes.
We use Playwright for E2E test, and vitest for unit test.
To test locally, please make sure browser binaries are already installed via npx playwright install
.
Also make sure you have built the @affine/web
workspace before running E2E tests.
yarn build
# run tests in headless mode in another terminal window
yarn test
I ran
yarn start -p 8080
afteryarn build
but the index page returned 404.
Try stopping your development server (initialized by yarn dev:local
or something) and running yarn build
again.