Summary: Flipper Launcher downloads, unpacks, launches Flipper, and closes itself. This is fine except for the fact that Flipper may be initiating and thus there's a gap of a few seconds until engineers see the main Flipper UI. This change improves this by launching earlier, even if just showing a loading page until Flipper is actually ready. Reviewed By: passy, aigoncharov Differential Revision: D48824479 fbshipit-source-id: aa6147a09f313d80592c9b08d089660ba73773a4
flipper-server (TBD)
Stand alone Flipper server as NodeJS process, that uses flipper-server-core for device communication and also provides a webserver to serve flipper-ui.
Flipper-server can be used as background process, for example on CI servers or to power IDE plugins.
Running flipper server
From NPM
TODO:
From source
cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop
yarn install
yarn flipper-server
Production build from source
cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop
yarn install
yarn build:flipper-server
Pass the --open flag to open Flipper server after building
Use --no-rebuild-plugins to speed up subsequent builds if default plugins have been build already