immich/docs/docs/developer/setup.md

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Setup

Environment

Server and web app

This environment includes the following services:

• Core server - /server/src/immich
• Machine learning - /machine-learning
• Microservices - /server/src/microservicess
• Web app - /web
• Redis
• PostgreSQL development database with exposed port 5432 so you can use any database client to acess it
• NGINX Proxy - nginx/nginx.conf

All the services are packaged to run as with single Docker Compose command.

Instructions

1. Clone the project repo.
2. Run cp docker/example.env docker/.env.
3. Edit docker/.env to provide values for the required variable UPLOAD_LOCATION.
4. From the root directory, run:

make dev # required Makefile installed on the system.

5. Access the dev instance in your browser at http://localhost:2283, or connect via the mobile app.

All the services will be started with hot-reloading enabled for a quick feedback loop.

You can access the web from http://your-machine-ip:2283 or http://localhost:2283 and access the server from the mobile app at http://your-machine-ip:2283/api

Mobile app

The mobile app (/mobile) will required Flutter toolchain to be installed on your system.

Please refer to the Flutter's official documentation for more information on setting up the toolchain on your machine.

Connect to a remote backend

If you only want to do web development connected to an existing, remote backend, follow these steps:

1. Enter the web directory - cd web/
2. Install web dependencies - npm i
3. Start the web development server

IMMICH_SERVER_URL=https://demo.immich.app/api npm run dev

IDE setup

Lint / format extensions

Setting these in the IDE give a better developer experience, auto-formatting code on save, and providing instant feedback on lint issues.

VSCode

Install Flutter, Prettier, ESLint and Svelte extensions.

in User settings.json (cmd + shift + p and search for Open User Settings JSON) add the following:

{
  "editor.formatOnSave": true,
  "[javascript][typescript][css]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "esbenp.prettier-vscode",
    "editor.tabSize": 2,
    "editor.formatOnSave": true
  },
  "[svelte]": {
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "svelte.svelte-vscode",
    "editor.tabSize": 2
  },
  "svelte.enable-ts-plugin": true,
  "eslint.validate": ["javascript", "svelte"],
  "[dart]": {
    "editor.formatOnSave": true,
    "editor.selectionHighlight": false,
    "editor.suggest.snippetsPreventQuickSuggestions": false,
    "editor.suggestSelection": "first",
    "editor.tabCompletion": "onlySnippets",
    "editor.wordBasedSuggestions": false,
    "editor.defaultFormatter": "Dart-Code.dart-code"
  }
}