Building
How to build Squidex using Docker or manually.
1. Build for docker
squidex/squidex:latestis the latest stable version.squidex/squidex:vX.XXis a specific stable version.squidex/squidex:devis the latest dev version (master branch).squidex/squidex:dex-XXXXis a specific dev version (master branch).
To build a custom image use our multistage dockerfile. Just run:
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docker build . -t my/squidex
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2. Build for manual deployment
In this paragraph
$SQUIDEXis a placeholder for the path to your local copy of the Squidex source code.When you want to deploy to IIS or Nginx you might want to build it manually. But keep in mind that we also provide the prebuild binaries on Github:
You can then find the files under
$SQUIDEX/publish.2.1. Build with docker
Run the following commands in Powershell or bash to build Squidex with docker:
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# Build the image
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docker build . -t squidex-build-image -f dockerfile.build
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# Open the image
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docker create --name squidex-build-container squidex-build-image
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# Copy the output to the host file system
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docker cp squidex-build-container:/out ./publish
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# Cleanup
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docker rm squidex-build-container
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Under windows just use the
build.ps script.We recommend to give your Docker machine at least 4GB of memory.
2.2. Build it manually
If you don't want to use docker, you can also build it manually. The project structure has changed slightly when we migrated Squidex from .NET Core 2.X to .NET Core 3.0.
2.2.1. Build the .NET 3.0 version
The new structure differentiates between the frontend and the backend:\
Project structure
This has the advantage that the code is separated and that we can using multiple contains to build them independently and make better use of caching in docker. After both, frontend and backend, have been built, you need to copy the build artifacts to a common folder. We just assume that we use
$SQUIDEX/publish for that.To build the backend you have to run the following commands.
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cd backend
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cd src/Squidex
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dotnet publish --configuration Release --output "../../../publish"
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To build the frontend you have to use the following commands.
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cd frontend
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npm i # Install npm packages
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npm run build
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copy build "../publish/wwwroot/build"
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2.2.2. Build the .NET 2.X without docker
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npm i
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npm run build
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dotnet restore
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dotnet publish --configuration Release --output "../../publish"
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Please note that on windows to install all required build tools for node-sass you have to run
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npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
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from an elevated PowerShell or CMD.exe (run as Administrator).
We recommend to build Squidex with docker, because it ensures that you have a clean environment. Because of the docker layers the build is not much slower and can be even faster in some situations.
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