Using a Remote Server and Installing Locally only the Frontend Dependencies
If you want to work only on the frontend side of Redash, and have a Redash instance deployed already (running version 1.0.0 or newer), you can use this instance as your API server and run locally only the webpack dev-server.
The setup in this case is very simple:
- Install Node.js (14.16.1 or newer, can be installed with Homebrew on OS/X)
- Install Yarn (1.22.10 or newer):
npm install --global yarn@1.22.10 - Git clone the repository.
- Change to the repository directory, and install Node packages:
yarn --frozen-lockfile. - Start webpack dev-server:
REDASH_BACKEND="URL of your redash server" yarn start.
The REDASH_BACKEND="" part of the command sets the URL of your remote Redash
server.