DTube

Install Meteor

Linux and Mac: curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Windows: link

Install the app

Clone this repository and meteor npm install in it. This will install all dependencies coming from npm including the ones required for development.

Start the app

Finally, do meteor in the folder to start the app in development mode.

Options:

-p 3456 for running on a different port than the default 3000.

--production will minify and merge the javascript and css files.

Meteor will automatically push any change on the code to the browser while you keep the meteor dev server running.

Going in-depth

Running blockchain locally

You can run a blockchain locally on your PC to avoid sending transactions onto the live network. Follow instructions in dtube/avalon, then just change API to 'localhost:3001' in the settings page to point your UI to your development chain.

Working with Uploads

For doing anything on the upload side, it is strongly recommended to run your own dtube/ipfs-uploader. Once running, simply turn the localhost setting to true in client/settings.js and it will upload locally instead of our production servers.

Working on the Player

As you can see, we use the embed directly available on emb.d.tube. This is the dtube/embed repository. Feel free to clone it and directly point the client/views/commons/videos/player.js to your file:// version of the player if you want to make changes that include the player.

Working with pre-rendering for bots

The dtube/minidtube repository is responsible for all the pre-rendering and serving a decent version of d.tube to bots which normally wouldn't be able to.

Common Issues

If you are using windows, the meteor npm seems to be buggy at times. You can try using the normal npm instead if you have that installed.

After each meteor or package.json update, you will need to re-run meteor npm install

For any help, feel free to join us in our Discord Channel

Contributing

If you want to contribute to the project, please read this page.