Summary: Make sure flipper-server is bundled in such a way that it is self-contained NPX-able. Also added some checks to make sure that dev dependencies don't accidentallly end up in in Flipper buidls Reviewed By: nikoant Differential Revision: D33190254 fbshipit-source-id: 443162e537d8ca9f956acac2d7bd52cbf0c92172
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
Test NPX build
cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop/
yarn build:flipper-server
cd flipper-server
yarn test:npx