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README.md
Vector/Web
Vector is a Matrix web client built using the Matrix React SDK (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk).
Getting started
- Install or update
node.js
so that yournpm
is at least at version2.0.0
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web.git
- Switch to the SDK directory:
cd vector-web
- Install the prerequisites:
npm install
- Start the development builder and a testing server:
npm start
- Wait a few seconds for the initial build to finish.
- Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser to see your newly built Vector.
With npm start
, any changes you make to the source files will cause a rebuild so
your changes will show up when you refresh.
For production use, run npm run build
to build all the necessary files
into the vector
directory and run your own server.
Development
For simple tweaks, you can work on any of the source files within Vector with the setup above, and your changes will cause an instant rebuild.
However, all serious development on Vector happens on the develop
branch. This typically
depends on the develop
snapshot versions of matrix-react-sdk
and matrix-js-sdk
too, which isn't handled by Vector's package.json
. To get the right dependencies, check out
the develop
branches of these libraries and then use npm link
to tell Vector
about them:
git clone git@github.com:matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk.git
cd matrix-react-sdk
git checkout develop
npm install
npm run build
npm start
(to start the dev rebuilder)cd ../vector-web
- Link the react sdk package into the example:
npm link path/to/your/react/sdk
Similarly, you may need to npm link path/to/your/js/sdk
in your matrix-react-sdk
directory.
If you add or remove any components from the Vector skin, you will need to rebuild
the skin's index by running, npm run reskindex
.
You may need to run npm i source-map-loader
in matrix-js-sdk if you get errors
about "Cannot resolve module 'source-map-loader'" due to shortcomings in webpack.
Deployment
Just run npm run build
and then mount the vector
directory on your webserver to
actually serve up the app, which is entirely static content.