From db0433748ad502d07bda35cbc69f72047a0298af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Klampfer <martin.klampfer@fairkom.eu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:29:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] updated readme to include packaging and running the html5
client
---
README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8aff5f0378..9c299029f2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ You can install on a Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit server. We provide [bbb-install.sh](ht
For full technical documentation BigBlueButton -- including architecture, features, API, and GreenLight (the default front-end) -- see [https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/](https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/).
-Setting up a development environment for the HTML 5 client
+Working with a custom HTML 5 client
==========================================================
After installing BBB 2.3 using [this tutorial](https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.3/install.html),
@@ -43,5 +43,23 @@ follow these steps to set a development environment:
* set the "wsUrl" value to the url that was retrieved before
* ```meteor npm install```
-* run the html5 client using ```npm start```. [Screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) can be used to keep the session open when the shell is closed.
+
+
+* Now you can set up a development environment by running the html5 client using ```npm start```. [Screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) can be used to keep the session open when the shell is closed.
+
+
+* or build a bundle which can be run as a service:
+ * Build the html5 client bundle
+ ```METEOR_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 meteor build --server-only /some/dir```
+ This will create a tar archive of the built client in /some/dir
+
+ * if you have not removed the built-in client service, according to [this page](https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/2.3/dev.html#developing-the-html5-client), stop the service:
+ ```sudo systemctl stop bbb-html5```
+
+ * unpack the bundle
+ ```sudo tar -xzvf /some/dir/<bundle>.tar.gz -C /usr/share/meteor```
+
+ * and Start the html5 client
+ ```sudo systemctl start bbb-html5```
+
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