Getting started!

[renegadeandy]

Hi all.

I am getting started with Jellyfin development. My motivation is so I can lead the way with developing the solution for this feature request I made : https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/2942...ntegration

I have already done the following:

1. Read the guidelines
   
2. Read the getting started documentation
   
3. Forked the master server project
   
4. Created a feature branch for my work
   
5. Cloned my fork
   
6. Loaded VSCode (On MacOS)
   
7. Cloned and built the Jellyfin web project
   
8. Installed appropriate plugins
   
9. Now I am looking at 'running' the server for the first time from source.
   
10. I have opened Jellyfin.Server.launchSettings.json and added "JELLYFIN_WEB-DIR" with the path to my dist output from the npm build development command, to the environment variables for the "Jellyfin.Server".environmentVariables 
    
11. Now! How do I actually run the Jellyfin.Server project within VSCode. I cannot seem to find the right 'starting' point (this could be my VSCode basics failing me). I do have the F# solution explorer and in their I have a nice green run button, and I select the jellyfin.server project, however it leads you to think it has started something, I don't believe it has (No output on the screen and also nothing in web browser on localhost:8096
    

Looking forward for some simple guidance on a step I am surely missing - thank you in advance!

[renegadeandy]

Turns out I had defined

JELLYFIN_WEB-DIR

But the variable is actualy

JELLYFIN_WEB_DIR - changing this and hitting Run -> Run and the project starts! Great!

[omencloud]

Mixing underscores and hyphens? You monster.

[Matt Hudson]

Turns out I had defined

JELLYFIN_WEB-DIR

But the variable is actualy

JELLYFIN_WEB_DIR - changing this and hitting Run -> Run and the project starts! Great!

Encouraging dev kickstart story! I am considering the same for some unrelated feature and/or plugin work. Thanks for posting.

[CleverCompiler]

Thanks for figuring this out. It's working for me but now I need to create a user to login to the frontend with so I can run my changes. I've searched the Documentation and forum but I can't add a user or run setup when I debug the solution.