Guides and scripts for installing StackEdit

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Guides and scripts for installing StackEdit

StackEdit GitHub Page : https://github.com/benweet/stackedit

Guides

Debian 8 (12/05/2016)

Scripts

None.

how-to-install-stackedit-debian-8.mkd

Installing StackEdit on Debian 8

Pre-requisites

• Git
• node.js/npm
• Gulp
• Bower

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• Start by update repo list

sudo apt-get update

• Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install git nodejs

• Update npm

sudo npm install npm -g

• Continue to install dependencies

sudo npm install --global gulp
sudo npm install --global bower

StackEdit installation

• Install StackEdit

cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/benweet/stackedit.git stackedit
cd stackedi
sudo npm install
sudo bower install --allow-root

Make a daemon for StackEdit

• Choose an internal port

export PORT=80

• Create a systemd service file

sudo vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/stackedit.service

• If the folder doesn't exist create it

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/systemd/system

• Add the following code in the stackedit.service file

Description=Stackedit daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nodejs /opt/stackedit/server.js
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Enable the service

sudo systemctl enable stackedit.service

• Reload systemd daemon and start the stackedit service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start service.service

• Verify the StackEdit service is running

sudo netstat -tnlup | grep 3000
tcp6       0      0 :::3000                 :::*                    LISTEN      12413/nodejs

Post-configuration

If you need to modify some StackEdit default behaviour, you may need to edit /opt/stackedit/public/res/constants.js. For example to change the Github OAuth url (default is localhost).