Croodle is an open-source scheduling and survey web application that enables you to schedule appointments, meetings, or events easily. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Croodle on NixOS Latest using the source code from GitHub.
Before diving into the installation process, you should have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install the required packages to build and run Croodle on NixOS. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo nix-env -i -A nixpkgs.autoconf nixpkgs.automake nixpkgs.cmake nixpkgs.git nixpkgs.go nixpkgs.nodejs
To install Croodle, we need to clone the source code from GitHub. You can do this by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/jelhan/croodle.git
Next, we need to build the Croodle code by running the following commands:
cd croodle
npm install
To configure Croodle, we need to copy the configuration files from the config directory by running the following command:
cp config/config.json.example config/config.json
Next, open the config.json file and edit the configuration variables according to your requirement. You can change the server, port, and baseURL variables in this file.
Finally, we can run Croodle by executing the following command:
npm start
Once you have run this command, Croodle will start running on the server. You can access it by opening your web browser and entering the server's IP address or hostname and port number. For example, if your server's IP address is 192.168.1.100, you can access Croodle by entering http://192.168.1.100:3000 in your browser.
Conclusion
In this tutorial, we have seen how to install Croodle on NixOS Latest using the source code from GitHub. After following the above steps, you should be able to run Croodle on your NixOS server.
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