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
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
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
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
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.
