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I'm all for self-hosting your own instance, but sometimes the installation can seem daunting. Take Nitter for example, from here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitt

by beauHD 5y ago

I'm all for self-hosting your own instance, but sometimes the installation can seem daunting. Take Nitter for example, from here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter https://github.com/zedeus/nitter Here's how to create a nitter user, clone the repo, and build the project along with the scss. # useradd -m nitter # su nitter $ git clone https://github.com/zedeus/nitter $ cd nitter $ nimble build -d:release $ nimble scss $ mkdir ./tmp Hard to make sense of all that :/ What's 'Nimble' and 'scss'?

atestu 5y ago
They could place the last 3 commands in a Makefile. Not very trendy I know…
- gumby 5y ago
  The whole installation could have been a Makefile.
  - juki 5y ago
    The last three commands are the whole installation (`git clone` and `cd` would be required anyway). Adding a completely unnecessary dependency to a second build tool just to invoke tasks in the build tool they already use would be pretty silly though. They could just define a nimble task to do all three at once.
1986 5y ago
Aren't nimble and scss explained literally 2 paragraphs above, at the same link? > To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see nim-lang.org for details. It is possible to install it system-wide or in the user directory you create below. > To compile the scss files, you need to install libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use libsass-dev.
gen220 5y ago
`nimble` is the package manager for the programming language `nim` [1]. From [2], we can see that `nimble scss` simply generates the CSS files for the frontend. The benefit of OSS is you can answer these questions yourself with a bit of poking around! IMO this is a fairly standard installation process, maybe the fact that it's using Nim instead of a more mainstream language makes it look more daunting than it is. The only out-of-the-ordinary thing here, IMO, is `nimble build` instead of `make build`. [1]: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble [2]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/nitter.nimble https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/nitter.nimble
3np 5y ago
Alternatively, from a couple of lines below: To build and run Nitter in Docker: $ docker build -t nitter:latest . $ docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d -p 8080:8080 nitter:latest A prebuilt Docker image is provided as well: $ docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d -p 8080:8080 zedeus/nitter:latest So one or two lines depending on if you're OK with pulling a provided image or not.

by beauHD 5y ago

atestu 5y ago

They could place the last 3 commands in a Makefile. Not very trendy I know…

gumby 5y ago
The whole installation could have been a Makefile.
- juki 5y ago
  The last three commands are the whole installation (`git clone` and `cd` would be required anyway). Adding a completely unnecessary dependency to a second build tool just to invoke tasks in the build tool they already use would be pretty silly though. They could just define a nimble task to do all three at once.

1986 5y ago

Aren't nimble and scss explained literally 2 paragraphs above, at the same link? > To compile Nitter you need a Nim installation, see nim-lang.org for details. It is possible to install it system-wide or in the user directory you create below. > To compile the scss files, you need to install libsass. On Ubuntu and Debian, you can use libsass-dev.

gen220 5y ago

`nimble` is the package manager for the programming language `nim` [1]. From [2], we can see that `nimble scss` simply generates the CSS files for the frontend. The benefit of OSS is you can answer these questions yourself with a bit of poking around! IMO this is a fairly standard installation process, maybe the fact that it's using Nim instead of a more mainstream language makes it look more daunting than it is. The only out-of-the-ordinary thing here, IMO, is `nimble build` instead of `make build`. [1]: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble [2]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/nitter.nimble https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/nitter.nimble

3np 5y ago

Alternatively, from a couple of lines below: To build and run Nitter in Docker: $ docker build -t nitter:latest . $ docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d -p 8080:8080 nitter:latest A prebuilt Docker image is provided as well: $ docker run -v $(pwd)/nitter.conf:/src/nitter.conf -d -p 8080:8080 zedeus/nitter:latest So one or two lines depending on if you're OK with pulling a provided image or not.