ncd-fe/docs/building/nicolium.md

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Building Nicolium	Building	10

Building Nicolium

Building Nicolium requires Node.js and pnpm package manager to be installed. Since Node v16.13, Node.js comes with corepack pre-installed, which can be used to manage package managers like pnpm.

To enable pnpm using corepack, run the following command:

corepack enable pnpm

You can now proceed to fetching Nicolium Git repository, installing dependencies, and building the project:

# Clone the Nicolium repository
git clone https://codeberg.org/mkljczk/nicolium.git
cd nicolium
# Install dependencies
pnpm install
# Build the pl-api dependency
pnpm -F pl-api build
# Build the Nicolium project
pnpm -F nicolium build

The built files will be located in the packages/nicolium/dist directory. You can serve them using a static web server.

Following environment variables can be used to customize the instance in build process:

• BACKEND_URL - URL of the Mastodon-compatible instance to connect to. If not set, tries fetching /api/v1/instance from the origin and falls back to standalone mode.
• FE_SUBDIRECTORY - The path where Nicolium is mounted to. Defaults to /.
• WITH_LANDING_PAGE - Displays the landing page on the home page, when running in standalone mode.