Local backend development

Here's a small guide about how to build & run mockingbird locally.

Prerequisites

To run mockingbird in any variant on your personal machine, you'll need a running mongodb instance.

Running mockignbird on JVM

Follow the following steps:

1. Install JDK 17. JDK vendor doesn't matter, you can use your preferred distribution. Note that if you choose to run on GraalVM or Liberica NIK, you'll need to install js module via gu to get scripting feature work properly.
2. Download frontend artifacts from one of the latest workflow runs
3. Create /dist/out directory in frontend directory and unpack artifact archive into it
4. run sbt "project mockingbird-api; compile"