Building from Source

If you want to develop Svarla or run it without Docker, you can build everything from source.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+
• PostgreSQL 16+
• Go 1.22+ (for MediaBridge)

Server

git clone https://github.com/packetmoose/svarla.git
cd svarla
npm install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — set DATABASE_URL and INITIAL_PASSWORD
npm run migrate
npm run build
npm run build:web
npm start

For development with hot-reload:

npm run dev

MediaBridge

cd mediabridge
go build -o mediabridge ./cmd/mediabridge/
./mediabridge

Edit mediabridge-config.yaml to set publicIp to your server's public IP.

Development with Docker Compose

The root docker-compose.yml (in the repo root, not docker/) builds everything from source with sensible defaults:

git clone https://github.com/packetmoose/svarla.git
cd svarla
docker compose up -d

Server is at http://localhost:3000 with password dev.