Setting up the Development Environment
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If you are only interested in trying out the application, it is recommended you download the application from Appstore or Google Play. The documentation here will bring you through setting up a complete development environment.
First, you will have to clone the project. Open a terminal at your preferred location, or navigate to it.
Then clone the repository using this command:
If you are using SSH, you can clone the project using this command instead:
Due to the project using , you will see a lot of errors when you open the project in your favorite editor. This is due to generated files not being tracked in git, thus needing to be generated. To do this see how to generate code in .
Refer to for creating a Firebase Project.
Remember to add the Google Service (JSON | PLIST) to the correct location as mentioned in Configuring Firebase.
To run the application, you must copy the .env.example and rename the copy to .env.
Remember to NOT REMOVE/RENAME the original file!
The .env file is not tracked by Git, and will only exist on your local machine. If you are using a local version of the , you can use that for the BASE_API_ENDPOINT_URL. If not, you can find our development API on the page.
The same goes for BASE_STATIC_ENDPOINT_URL, if you are hosting your own static bucket on AWS or Azure Blob, you can use that. Otherwise, you can the relevant development bucket on the page.