Introduction

VaahShare Introduction

Setup

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/webreinvent/vaahshare.git

• Now clone the API repository and follow the setup guide provided in the API repository

git clone https://github.com/webreinvent/vaah-sockets.git

• Run npm install in both repositories.
• In the VaahShare repository, edit the environment file as follows:

Key	Description	Value
VITE_APP_ENV	VaahShare App Environment	development/production
VITE_API_URL	VaahShare API URL or Backend URL	http://localhost/himanshu/vaahshare-backend/public/api/

Runnning the app

• Run npm run dev to start the app.
• The app is currently locked to a single instance, so you can only run one instance at a time.
• To run multiple instances with different hosts, use npm run dev-electron.
• This will start the app with a different host: electron, allowing you to run multiple instances on a single machine.

Build the app

• Before building the app, ensure you have updated the environment file with the correct VITE_API_URL and VITE_APP_ENV set to production.
• Run npm run build to build the app. -After that, the installer and unpacked build will be available in the dist folder.