Build Logseq Desktop on Windows

Intro

This is a guide on creating Logseq development environment on Windows with PowerShell. Non-platform specific instructions like Develop Logseq should also be referenced.

Pre-requisites

Ensure Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted (or other equivalent)
Good network connection. Here's An example of setting up proxy in PowerShell
Node.js 16.x
Clojure (follow this Guidance)
JRE 8 (required for Clojure)

(updated 20220218. May confirm via JAVA_VERSION and NODE_VERSION in THIS FILE)

An example of installing pre-requisites on Windows

Install Chocolatey
Install JRE
choco install nvm
nvm install 16.13 (or whatever version)
nvm use 16.13
npm install -g yarn
nvm use 16.13
Install clj-on-windows

Congrats! The pre-requisites are ready.

Set-up development environment (web app)

The basic idea is replacing the clojure commands in package.json to clj.
Go to your cloned Logseq repo. Then:

yarn (to install dependencies. Refer THIS if you want to setup proxy in PowerShell)
clj -M:cljs watch app electron (the clj equivalent of yarn cljs:watch)

Now you can access the app via http://localhost:3001 and all changes to the code will be watched.

Set-up development environment (desktop)

yarn
clj -M:cljs release app publishing electron --debug (the clj equivalent of yarn release, to build the app into static directory)
cd static
yarn
cd ..

Then do the gulp's job manually (as it's not available on Windows). Following commands are equivalent to yarn dev-electron-app:

copy files in resources to static
yarn css:build
cd static
yarn electron:dev

The desktop app should pop-up on your screen.

An example of setting up proxy in PowerShell

$env:GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTPS_PROXY='http://<proxy-host>:<proxy-port>'
$env:ELECTRON_GET_USE_PROXY='true'
$env:HTTPS_PROXY='http://<proxy-host>:<proxy-port>'
$env:HTTP_PROXY='http://<proxy-host>:<proxy-port>'

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