Gitea-Arc_blue-Theme/ThemeDev.md

Setting up system for developing for gitea frondend

• Install go(1.15 =>), node.js(10.13 => or latest lts), npm, git, make
• Clone gitea repo git clone https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
• Cd into repo folder cd gitea
• Checkout last stable (1.13.0 at this point) git checkout v1.13.0
• Build backend run: TAGS="sqlite sqlite_unlock_notify" make backend

Developing for gitea frondend

• Open a seperate terminal (since this proces needs to keep running)
• Cd into repo folder cd gitea
• Building continuously by running make watch-frontend
  Note: if you create a new file, quit the make process and restart it
• Open another terminal (since the backend proces also needs to keep running)
• Cd into repo folder cd gitea
• Start gitea backend server ./gitea web