flipper-server (TBD)

Stand alone Flipper server as NodeJS process. Used for device communication and also provides a webserver to serve flipper-ui.

Flipper-server can be used as background process, for example on CI servers or to power IDE plugins.

Running flipper server

From NPM

TODO:

From source

cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop
yarn install
yarn flipper-server

Production build from source

cd <Flipper checkout>/desktop
yarn install
yarn build:flipper-server

Pass the --open flag to open Flipper server after building

Use --no-rebuild-plugins to speed up subsequent builds if default plugins have been build already