Asciiflow is a free and open-source web application that allows you to draw and create ASCII diagrams. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install asciiflow on Alpine Linux.
Before starting the installation process, make sure that you have a running Alpine Linux instance with root or administrative privileges.
Follow the below steps to install asciiflow on Alpine Linux:
The first step is to install the package dependencies needed to run asciiflow.
sudo apk add nodejs-npm build-base yarn
Once the dependencies are installed, let's clone the asciiflow repository from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/lewish/asciiflow2.git;
cd asciiflow2;
Now, to install the Node packages, run the command below.
yarn install
To build the app, run the following command.
yarn run build
After the above steps, to run the app run the following command.
yarn start
It will then start the app on the localhost:8080 port.
By following these simple steps, you can successfully install asciiflow on Alpine Linux. You can now start using asciiflow and create your ASCII diagrams easily.
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