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Contributing
Where should I start?
Checkout This Kanban Board to see the rough development roadmap.
Note to potential contributors: Notify the developers on Suwayomi discord (#programming channel) or open a WIP pull request before starting if you decide to take on working on anything from/not from the roadmap in order to avoid parallel efforts on the same issue/feature.
How does Tachidesk work?
This project has two components:
- server: contains the implementation of tachiyomi's extensions library and uses an Android compatibility library to run apk extensions. All this concludes to serving a REST API to
webUI
. - webUI: A react SPA(
create-react-app
) project that works with the server to do the presentation.
Why a web app?
This structure is chosen to
- Achieve the maximum multi-platform-ness
- Gives the ability to acces Tachidesk from a remote web browser e.g. your phone, tablet or smart TV
- Eaise development of alternative user intefaces for Tachidesk
User Interfaces for Tachidesk server
Currently there are three known interfaces for Tachidesk:
- webUI: The react SPA that Tachidesk is traditionally shipped with.
- TachideskJUI: A Jetbrains Compose Native app, re-uses components made for the upcoming Tachiyomi 1.x
- Equinox: A web user interface made with Vue.js, in super early stages of development.
Building from source
Prerequisites
You need these software packages installed in order to build the project
Server
- Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment version 8 or newer(both Oracle JDK and OpenJDK works)
- Android stubs jar
- Manual download: Download android.jar and put it under
AndroidCompat/lib
. - Automated download: Run
AndroidCompat/getAndroid.sh
(MacOS/Linux) orAndroidCompat/getAndroid.ps1
(Windows) from project's root directory to download and rebuild the jar file from Google's repository.
- Manual download: Download android.jar and put it under
webUI
- Nodejs LTS or latest
- Yarn
- Git
building the full-blown jar
Run ./gradlew :webUI:copyBuild server:shadowJar
, the resulting built jar file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar
.
building without webUI
bundled(server only)
Delete the server/src/main/resources/react
directory if exists from previous runs, then run ./gradlew server:shadowJar
, the resulting built jar file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx.jar
.
building the Windows package
Run ./gradlew :server:windowsPackage
to build a server only bundle and ./gradlew :webUI:copyBuild :server:windowsPackage
to get a full bundle , the resulting built zip package file will be server/build/Tachidesk-vX.Y.Z-rxxx-win32.zip
.
Running in development mode
First satistify the prerequisites
server
run ./gradlew :server:run --stacktrace
to run the server
webUI
How to do it is described in webUI/react/README.md
but for short,
first cd into webUI/react
then run yarn
to install the node modules(do this only once)
then yarn start
to start the development server, if a new browser window doesn't get opned automatically,
then open http://127.0.0.1:3000
in a modern browser. This is a create-react-app
project
and supports HMR and all the other goodies you'll need.