Hi all - I’m VERY new to Netlify (and a relative newbie at most everything else). I’ll give a TL;DR at the top, then describe in more detail in the middle, and then post the relevant links at the end.
TL;DR I don’t know how to ‘start’ my server once it’s built and deployed.
I’m trying to play around with SkyOffice, an OSS Gather.town clone. There’s a client and a server, and when I link the repo and build it, it runs great, but it’s hardcoded to point at a demo server that’s running that a LOT of other people are connected to as well. I can build and run a local server, and it works great, but when I change the location in the code to point at a separate deployed server, it fails to connect.
In my head, what I think is happening is that only the client builds. If I open the site after I change the server location to be what I think is, it attempts to connect to a server forever.
I’m trying to figure out how to:
a.) Build and run the server
b.) Write a little script to do that automatically - would that be best as a function?
Anyways, I’m not hoping for someone to fix everything for me - mostly I’m just hoping somebody will tell me what general tack I should take and give me a keyword or two to start googling. I’ve had a dumb idea to split out the server and the client repos and build them separately on two separate sites - but that seems silly?
Anyways, thanks very much for any thoughts/advice/leads/pointers you can offer - appreciate it all!
Repo: GitHub - kevinshen56714/SkyOffice: Immersive virtual office built with Phaser, React, Redux, PeerJS, and Colyseus.
My current site: https://k20client.netlify.app/