Hello!

I am trying to setup an instance, and I have no experience with Docker or web development.

I have followed these instructions and managed to setup the default instance without issue (nice instructions, by the way).

I am now trying to follow the Theming Guide, and trying to make some small modifications. I have looked at the source of lemmy-ui and I understand how to make the changes that I want. However, since I am not familiar with Docker, I am not sure about how to build an image for the slightly modified lemmy-ui.

From my current understanding I think that if I want to make any changes to the source, I will have to build from source using these instructions. Is this correct?

  • nutomicA
    5·
    4 years ago

    You need to build a Docker image, if you forked lemmy-ui then that should be simply docker build .. Then get the built image on the server, works via Docker Hub, or by exporting to a file, transfering to the server and importing it. Then reference that image in docker-compose.yml instead of lemmy-ui.

    This definitely needs to be documented better.

    • ZalamanderOP
      3·
      4 years ago

      Thank you for taking the time to answer, I really appreciate it! This worked great. Good thing that I asked instead of trying to build a house with a hammer.

    • ksynwa
      3·
      4 years ago

      do you use docker containers for this instance too?