How to install the koding IDE in a personal server?

Question

I found the koding IDE code in their github repository:

https://github.com/koding/IDE

but i can't find a way to install it, and README doesn't help much.

Some one knows how can i do it?

Answer 1

Easiest way to run Koding is to install docker-compose which can be found here (Requires docker-compose version >= 1.6). For the rest you can follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/koding/docker-compose.git
koding-docker-compose
cd koding-docker-compose
docker-compose up -d

Now you are able to access Koding via port 8090 (e.g. localhost:8090) on your host.

Update

Running Koding on Local Machine

This is if you don't want to do docker-compose way and install everything locally, (not recommended).

Software Prerequisites

Go v1.7 Node.js v0.10 CoffeeScript v1.8.0 Supervisor Start developing

Follow these steps for running the instance:

git clone https://github.com/koding/koding.git /your/koding/path
cd /your/koding/path
node -v # make sure your node version is not greater than `0.10.x`
npm -v # make sure your npm version is 2.15.x
coffee -v # make sure your coffeeScript version must be 1.8
npm install

You should have packages ready for running build specific scripts.

./configure # create necessary config files
./run install # start to install dependencies
./run buildservices # build the services
./run # run all services

As a result, you will have a file watcher watching your backend files (both node, and golang) and restart services when it's necessary. Now open up another terminal and run following commands:

cd /your/koding/path
cd client # move into frontend client folder
npm install # install client dependencies
make # this will run a client watcher for you

Right now you should have 2 different watchers for (1) your backend files, (2)for your frontend client files. Now you can navigate to to see your local Koding instance. Enjoy!