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Lemmy UI frontend contribution (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I would like to contribute to lemmys front end UI

I have some experience in frontend development with little experience in backend development.

Is it possible for me to spin up a local front end that is run off an already running backend? Or is the only way to run a backend on my own pc?

I am using windows, and the contribution docs don't mention anything about windows, it has commands to run for Linux/Mac. Would anyone be able to assist?

Is there a more appropriate community for this question? Couldn't find one so hopefully this is good enough here

Thanks

For anyone that comes across this, I used docker to run the backend and then modify the yml config to point to my local front-end

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Everything you need should be here

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

Documentation on local host development

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/02-local-development.html

[–] thereddevil 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Also there’s https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support

And a matrix chat room for lemmy devs https://matrix.to/#/!tUnhsBRCsiePXfsIGe:matrix.org/$l9fOJVpCMfW5g6B54CaNlDrBLaSjFzUhOzp_TnDq3UM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you the matrix chat will help when I next give it a try. I think your link is broken, it says the link is malformed when I try join

But I got a link from the GitHub and that worked

[–] thereddevil 0 points 2 years ago

You could use wsl2 with the Linux commands.

If not, I think all you need is node, yarn (instructions should be on their GitHub) and a way to run postgres.