Developer Guide (Web)
Welcome to the developers guide for web! This guide will help you setup a development environment to start working on the Jitsi Meet applications.
caution
Building the apps / SDKs is not supported on Windows.
Building the sources
note
Node.js >= 14 and npm >= 7 are required.
On Debian/Ubuntu systems, the required packages can be installed with:
- Download "Linux Binaries (x64)" from https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- Install Node.js following these instructions: https://github.com/nodejs/help/wiki/Installation
Then go ahead:
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
cd ./jitsi-meet
npm install
# To build the Jitsi Meet application, just type
make
Running with webpack-dev-server for development
Use the following command in your terminal:
make dev
By default the backend deployment used is alpha.jitsi.net. You can point the Jitsi Meet app at a different backend by using a proxy server. To do this, set the WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER_PROXY_TARGET variable:
export WEBPACK_DEV_SERVER_PROXY_TARGET=https://your-example-server.com
make dev
The app should be running at https://localhost:8080/
Certificate Error
Browsers may show a certificate error since the development certificate is self-signed. It's safe to disregard those warning and continue to your site.
Building .debs
To make a deb you can easily deploy to a public test server, ensure you have the lib-jitsi-meet sources you wish, then:
npm install
make
dpkg-buildpackage -A -rfakeroot -us -uc -tc
You'll have a bunch of .deb files in the parent directory, and can push the updated source to your server and install it with the jitsi-meet-web deb file.
Running from source on existing deployment
Follow the document https://community.jitsi.org/t/how-to-how-to-build-jitsi-meet-from-source-a-developers-guide/75422