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* Fix #1957. Boards dev guide.

* Remove incomplete link

* Clarify the config.json settings

* Recommend forking and cloning the repo

* Cleanup instructions

* make webapp before plugin deploy
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Mattermost Boards Developer's Guide

Mattermost Boards is the Focalboard (aka Boards) plugin running in Mattermost. It is pre-packaed, and runs out of the box with Mattermost 6.0 and later.

To build your own version of it:

  1. Build mattermost-plugin in the Focalboard repo
  2. Upload it as a custom plugin to your Mattermost server

Here are the steps in more detail:

Building the Boards plugin

Fork the Focalboard repo, clone it locally, and follow the steps in the readme to set up your dev environment.

Install dependencies:

# First-time setup dependencies
cd mattermost-plugin/webapp
npm install --no-optional
cd ../..
make prebuild

Build the plugin:

# Build webapp
make webapp

# Build plugin
cd mattermost-plugin
make dist

Refer to the dev-release.yml workflow for the up-to-date commands that are run as part of CI.

Uploading the plugin to your server

You can manually upload the plugin to your Mattermost Server:

  1. Enable custom plugins by setting PluginSettings > EnableUploads to true in the Mattermost config.json file
  2. Navigate to System Console > Plugins > Management and upload the generated .tar.gz package in your mattermost-plugin/dist directory
  3. Enable it (if needed)

Alternatively, you can install Mattermost locally and use make deploy to auto-deploy it for you:

First, build and run Mattermost locally:

  1. Follow the Mattermost Developers Guide to set up your environment
  • In particuler, make sure Docker is set up and running
  1. Fork mattermost-webapp, clone it locally, and make build
  2. Fork mattermost-server and clone it locally
  3. Run make config-reset to generate the config/config.json file
  4. Edit config/config.json:
  • Set ServiceSettings > SiteURL to http://localhost:8065 (docs)
  • Set ServiceSettings > EnableLocalMode to true (docs)
  • Set PluginSettings > EnableUploads to true (docs)
  1. Add an ENV var MM_SERVICESETTINGS_SITEURL with the same site URL used in the config
  2. Run make run-server in Mattermost

Now, to build and deploy the Boards plugin:

  1. Clone / fork mattermost/focalboard
  2. Install the dependencies (see above)
  3. Run:
make webapp
cd mattermost-plugin
make deploy