Set up your development environment

1. Install Homebrew: http://brew.sh

2. Open Terminal

3. Install dependencies

   brew install nvm git python3
       

4. Run nvm install --lts to install and use the latest LTS version.

1. Open Terminal

2. Install NodeJS from one of the following sources:

   1. nvm:

      curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.5/install.sh | bash
          nvm install --lts
          

   2. NodeSource:

      sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg
          sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
          curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg
          echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_16.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
          

   • You might need to install curl as well:

     sudo apt install curl
         

3. Install other dependencies:

   Linux requires the X11 developement libraries and libpng to build native Node modules.

   sudo apt install git python3 g++ libx11-dev libxtst-dev libpng-dev
       

Notes 

• To build RPMs, you need rpmbuild:

  sudo apt install rpm
      

1. Install Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/install

2. Install Visual Studio Community: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

   • Include Desktop development with C++ when installing

3. Open PowerShell

4. Install dependencies

   choco install nvm git python3
       

5. Restart PowerShell (to refresh the environment variables)

6. Run nvm install lts and nvm use lts to install and use the latest NodeJS LTS version.

NOTE: We don’t officially support Arch Linux for use with the Mattermost Desktop App. The provided guide is unofficial.

1. Open a terminal

2. Install nvm via

   1. nvm-sh:

      curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.5/install.sh | bash
          

      OR
   2. AUR (possibly using a helper):

      yay -S nvm
          

3. Install NodeJS via

   nvm install --lts
       

4. Install other dependencies:

   Linux requires the X11 development libraries and libpng to build native Node modules. Arch requires libffi since it’s not installed by default.

   sudo pacman -S npm git python3 gcc make libx11 libxtst libpng libffi
       

Notes 

• To build RPMs, you need rpmbuild

  sudo pacman -S rpm
      

NOTE: We don’t officially support Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS Linux for use with the Mattermost Desktop App. The provided guide is unofficial.

1. Open Terminal

2. Install NodeJS via nvm:

   curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.5/install.sh | bash
       nvm install --lts
       

3. Install other dependencies:

   Linux requires the X11 developement libraries and libpng to build native Node modules.

   sudo yum install git python3 g++ libX11-devel libXtst-devel libpng-devel
       

Notes 

• To build RPMs, you need rpmbuild:

  sudo dnf install rpm-build