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Asad Malik
Asad Malik

Reputation: 794

How to run an existing node app from github?

I'm very new to JavaScript application development, had few tutorials here and there, but nothing much to write home about. :)

I've no idea how to start this app. Can anyone please help me with starting this on localserver?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 18605

Answers (2)

bertonc96
bertonc96

Reputation: 826

You have first to clone your repo:

git clone https://github.com/albinotonnina/albinotonnina.com your-destination-folder

then when the repository has been cloned:

cd your-destination-folder
npm install # installing the dependencies
npm start # or 'node .'

Clone documentation https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone Npm start documentation https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/start.html

I've seen that maybe the build process is requested for that project: as they say in the Readme.MD you have to build the app like this:

npm run build

Or

npm run dev

for running in dev the project. Inside the package.json you can see what this commands do under the hood.

Upvotes: 11

Sandeep Rajoria
Sandeep Rajoria

Reputation: 1239

What you are trying to achieve is "cloning" a git repo on your local So, you might wanna look here -

https://help.github.com/en/articles/cloning-a-repository

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/clone-a-repository-223217891.html

Also, I strongly recommend going through some Git basics, probably here

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Upvotes: 0

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