Local Developing and Testing Process Steps

[WangLaoShi]

Hello Everyone, I am a new learner of NodeJS, I like Countly.

I had cloned the source from GitHub,and thanks for the wonderful bash scripts , I deployed a running Demo Countly APP successfully.

But When I want to do something , Like translating the word , or do some adjustments , or want to develop a new plugin , I found , I did not find the documents for how to developing or continuse deploy to the running server.

Any help will be my honor.

Waiting for your advices.

[ar2rsawseen]

Hello
you can check this section:
https://support.countly.com/hc/en-us/sections/360007406751-Plugin-Development

it might be a bit outdated, we are improving and moving to a newer frontend, but the main part in your question should be covered here: https://support.countly.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036862392-Introduction#starting-your-plugin-development

Let us know if you have any more questions :)

[WangLaoShi]

That is useful,Thanks.

Do you develop the project on Ubuntu?

simply run countly restart on your server

I think I need to install countly server on my computer , then I can use countly restart . But I am using a macOS . I did not know how to install on it . And If I want to develop the project using VSCode or WebStorm , How can I do that?

Thanks for your help.

[ar2rsawseen]

yes, by default, we do development on a remote Ubuntu server through VSCode
but you can probably set it on any OS through docker and use it for development that way. Unfortunately I do not have experience with that, but I may try to find someone who does :)

[John-Weak]

Hello @WangLaoShi
Please have a look at https://github.com/Countly/countly-server/blob/master/.vscode/README.devsetup.md