Commit 4f72b099 authored by JC Brand's avatar JC Brand

Mention creating your own builds in the quickstart guide

parent 78914867
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.. Note:: Please make sure to read the section :doc:`development` and that you have installed
all development dependencies (long story short, you should be able to just run ``make dev``)
.. _creating_builds:
Creating JavaScript and CSS bundles and distribution files
==========================================================
......@@ -43,9 +45,8 @@ to let the bundles be automatically generated as soon as you edit a file.
The Converse repository does not include the minified files in the ``dist`` or
``css`` directories. Before deployment, you'll want to generate them yourself.
To only generate the minified files, you can make them individually.
To only generate the minified files, you can make them individually. ::
::
make dist/converse.min.js
make css/converse.min.css
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......@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Quickstart
Getting a demo up and running
=============================
Use the content delivery network
--------------------------------
Option 1: Use the content delivery network
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Converse has a `CDN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network>`_, provided by `KeyCDN <http://keycdn.com/>`_,
which hosts its JavaScript and CSS files.
......@@ -42,6 +42,25 @@ via the *script* and *link* tags:
latest one), to avoid breakage when new backwards-incompatible versions are
released.
Option 2: Building the files yourself
-------------------------------------
Instead of using the CDN, you can also create your own builds and host them
yourself.
Have a look at the :ref:`creating_builds` section on how to create your own
builds.
Long story short, you should be able to do it by running `make dist`, but you
might need to install some development libraries on your system first
(e.g. gcc, libffi-dev and ruby-dev).
Besides including the ``converse.min.js`` and ``converse.min.css`` files,
you'll also need to make sure that the ``webfonts`` directory is available in
the same location as ``converse.min.css``.
Initializing Converse
---------------------
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