building-farm-from-source

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Use when building Farm locally from source, native bindings or Rust plugin artifacts are missing, or an example/E2E needs local core and plugin artifacts.

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Building Farm From Source

Overview

Farm examples depend on generated JS packages and native .node / .farm artifacts. Build missing prerequisites from the bottom up before running example builds or E2E.

When to Use

napi: not found, missing binding.cjs, or missing farm.*.node.
Cannot find module '@farmfe/plugin-*-linux-x64-gnu'.
packages/cli/dist/index.js or package dist/ files are missing.
Running examples/<name> or pnpm run test-e2e -- --example <name> locally.

Command Order

Run from /home/runner/work/farm/farm unless noted:

Install dependencies if CLIs are missing:

ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD=1 PLAYWRIGHT_SKIP_BROWSER_DOWNLOAD=1 corepack pnpm install

Build core native binding first:

cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm/packages/core && npm run build:rs

Build JS package prerequisites:

cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm/packages/utils && npx tsc -p tsconfig.json --outDir dist
cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm
corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/runtime run build
corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/runtime-plugin-hmr run build
corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/runtime-plugin-import-meta run build
corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/plugin-tools run build

Build Rust plugin artifacts required by core/examples:

cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm/rust-plugins/replace-dirname && npm run build
cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm/rust-plugins/react && npm run build
cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm/rust-plugins/tailwindcss && npm run build

Build core JS and CLI:

cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm
corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/core run build
corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/cli run build

Build and test the affected example:

cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm/examples/tailwindcss-rust-plugin && npm run build
cd /home/runner/work/farm/farm
corepack pnpm exec playwright install chromium
corepack pnpm run test-e2e -- --example tailwindcss-rust-plugin

Debugging Missing Prerequisites

Symptom	Build first
`napi: not found`	`corepack pnpm install`
Missing `@farmfe/utils/colors`	`cd packages/utils && npx tsc -p tsconfig.json --outDir dist`
Missing `@farmfe/plugin-replace-dirname-*`	`cd rust-plugins/replace-dirname && npm run build`
Missing `@farmfe/plugin-react-*`	`cd rust-plugins/react && npm run build`
Missing `@farmfe/plugin-tailwindcss-*`	`cd rust-plugins/tailwindcss && npm run build`
Missing `packages/cli/dist/index.js`	`corepack pnpm --filter @farmfe/cli run build`
Playwright executable missing	`corepack pnpm exec playwright install chromium`

Notes

For build verification, prefer package npm run build scripts over direct Cargo commands.
Rust plugin builds copy local artifacts into rust-plugins/*/npm/<abi>/.
If pnpm install cannot download Electron or Playwright binaries, skip them during install and install Playwright Chromium only when E2E is needed.