If you are interested in making changes to the Steemit.com website, you will need to setup a local instance of the website to work on. Here are the instructions to do so!
The steps below are basically the instructions from the Steemit.com GitHub Repository, with some minor variations / updates based on some hurdles that I ran into and overcame when I was following the steps.
I have run these multiple times on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 system, and they should work exactly "as-is" on Ubuntu 16.04. There are also variations in the GitHub Repo for OS X, and Debian based Linux.
Clone Steemit.com from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/steemit/steemit.com
Create a "tmp" directory
cd steemit.com
mkdir tmp
Download and Load NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh | bash
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
Verify NVM is running
command -v nvm # verify
(It should output nvm)
Install Dependencies
nvm install v6
npm install
npm install -g babel-cli
Create Config File
cd config
cp steem-example.json steem-dev.json
Generate a Secret String
node
> crypto.randomBytes(32).toString('base64')
> .exit
(Copy the string that was output.)
(It will look something like this: MQd4aPyBhnHhjeEoqKb7m1QFVuTTYZFtWyGkfejgSbo=)
Save your secret string to the config file
nano steem-dev.json
- Choose and enter a MySQL root password (you will use this later)
- Paste the secret string in for 'server_session_secret'
INSTALL SQL
cd ..
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
(Enter the MySQL root PW that you used above when prompted)
Run MySQL
mysql -u root -p
(enter password)
Create the "steemit_dev" database
> create database steemit_dev;
> quit
Install sequelize-cli globally
npm install -g sequelize sequelize-cli pm2 mysql
Configure the MySQL Password in the config file
cd db
cd config
nano config.json
(enter pw)
Run sequelize db:migrate in db/ directory
cd ..
sequelize db:migrate
Launch Steemit.com
cd ..
npm start
Wait until it shows "Application started on port 3002".
Connect to your local steemit.com instance!
http://123.456.789.001:3002/
(Use the IP address of your system)
That's it!
If you have any questions, let me know and I will do my best to help :-)