Development workflow

Currently, it is not recommended to run the studio on its own. Therefore, you must start the Botpress Server, which will provide a couple of required parameters so the studio can work smoothly with the server.

• Type yarn and yarn build to build everything
• Use yarn watch to start a watcher on both the backend and frontend
• Type yarn package to generate a single executable file for every available OS

Like before, any changes made on the frontend will be available after a simple page refresh. Changes on the backend will require a server restart.

Since this package MUST be started from the Botpress Server, you need to set a special environment variable on the server so it can load the correct files. The variable is named DEV_STUDIO_PATH and must point to packages/studio-be/out

As standalone (NOT RECOMMENDED)

The studio can be executed as a standalone application, but there are still a couple of things that will not work correctly.

When started as a standalone, these environment variables must be set:

• BP_MODULES_PATH: Path to the modules folder of a Botpress installation
• BP_DATA_FOLDER: Path to the data folder (bots/, global/)
• BP_SERVER_URL: to determine

Release workflow

1. Type yarn release <type> where type can be major, minor or patch
2. Open a PR with all the files, when it is merged on baster, binaries will be produced and released