Distra

The video sharing service for the 21st century.

Run locally

To run Distra locally, you clone the repository first:

git clone https://github.com/distralive/distra-next

# or if you use ssh
git clone git@github.com:distralive/distra-next

# or if you use GitHub's cli
gh repo clone distralive/distra-next

Then, cd into the cloned repo then install dependencies:

cd distra-next && pnpm i # Distra uses pnpm, if you don't have it, enable it by running `corepack enable pnpm`

Copy the .env.example file to .env:

cp .env.example .env

then edit the values in the .env file. It already has guides on what values you should put, except for the database.

For the database, you can create a MySQL database on your computer/VPS, or use any of the other options:

• PlanetScale
• Amazon RDS for MySQL
• or something else 🙂

note: I’m not sponsored by anyone to recommend these

After that, simply run a development server by running:

pnpm dev