How to build Budibase source code from some pull requests

[shaikhashraf709]

I am into a project where i am designing a large form for which i need some features in budibase which are not yet in main branch so i decided to build budibase from a pull request but i do not have so much experience in building an electronJS app that budibase is written in (if i am right). i searched on internet but its confusing.

Thank you.

[mike12345567]

Hi @shaikhashraf709 - the form builder which I assume you're looking to use will be released tomorrow, 25th Feb - there will be a release available with all of our latest work available in it.

As for building from source, building an actual Electron app, in the packages/server directory you can run the command yarn build:electron which will build the platform correct version and output it to the packages/server/dist directory. However this requires you have setup the repo fully, using the information found here.

If you are simply hoping to use the form builder and all of the latest features I would recommend waiting for the release tomorrow, we wouldn't recommend using a build from a PR to build a real app as our Cloud will not be able to support it yet (when trying to deploy) or you would need to build your self hosted configuration from source.

[shaikhashraf709]

Ok. i think i should wait for tomorrow.