archive.social/README.md

archive.social

🚧 Work In Progress

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Summary

• Dependencies
• Local development

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Dependencies

Runtimes

• Node.js 18+
• Python 3.9+.

Browsers

• Google Chrome (npx playwright install --force chrome may be used).

Python dependencies

• ⚠️ For now: Python dependencies are installed at machine level, as a post-install step of npm install.

Known Debian / Ubuntu packages

curl bash gcc g++ python3 python3-pip python3-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev ghostscript poppler-utils

Node may be sourced from Nodesource.

For development on Mac OS

A brewfile is available. Run brew bundle to install machine-level dependencies that can be provided by homebrew.

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Local development

🚧 WIP

brew bundle # (Mac OS only) - See Linux dependencies above.
npm install 
npx playwright install chrome
npm run generate-local-cert # Will generate a certificate for self-signing PDFs
npm run dev