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Setting up a beta NodeBB v3 environment

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  • With NodeBB v3 on the horizon, I thought it would make sense for me to provide a guide on how to upgrade an existing (or newly built - up to you) environment to v3.beta1

    This guide assumes you already have a v2 test environment functional and are looking to upgrade to v3.

    Let’s start:

    First, ensure your nodebb instance has been stopped 🙂

    • Type npm config set legacy-peer-deps true
    • cd /path/to/your/nodebb
    • Type git rev-parse HEAD (save this value in case you need to roll back)
    • Type git fetch && git checkout bootstrap5
    • Type git reset --hard v3.0.0-beta.1
    • Type ./nodebb upgrade -mi

    Now upgrade all your plugins to the latest version if available

    • Type ./nodebb build

    As this will be a beta system, there will be frequent updates for the Harmony theme which will present themselves in the usual place (ACP -> Install Plugins - Out of Date). These should be installed in the usual fashion, although along with these updates, you will need to perform a git fetch and git pull of the bootstrap5 repository as it will shown as several releases behind.

    Once you’ve updated the Harmony theme as below

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    • Type git fetch && git pull

    You’ll see the import of a number of changed files

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    • Type ./nodebb build && ./nodebb restart

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    You can ignore the warnings for now.

    Enjoy the updated instance.

  • @phenomlab Let me know if you come across any issues. Happy to help.

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  • @phenomlab anyway this is a beta version, as you said before to me some things not working properly.

  • @cagatay Correct. I’ve adjusted the title accordingly to reflect that.

  • I have a Captcha bug after upgrade on login connexion.

    Without that, impossible to connect to nodebb due to captcha bug

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  • @DownPW that’s not a bug as it works fine on my Dev install.

    Screenshot_2023-01-27-21-52-37-75_e4424258c8b8649f6e67d283a50a2cbc.jpg

    Anything in the console?

  • @phenomlab I have rebuild and it’s OK now.

    odd but it’s a beta i guess 😉

  • Have you have test many plugins ? or have you list of incompatibility plugins for now ?

  • @DownPW I’ve tested most of them. The polls plugin doesn’t seem to work from what I can see but others are fully functional. I need to perform a full audit though as I’ve mostly focused on the Swatch code.

  • and you upgrade via cli your plugin ?

    I have this with acp on all plugins to update :

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    2023-01-27T22:02:49.046Z [4567/1606] - error: admin.plugins.upgrade
    Error: Command failed: npm install nodebb-plugin-tenor-gif@3.0.0 --save
    npm ERR! code ERESOLVE
    npm ERR! ERESOLVE could not resolve
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! While resolving: @nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions@1.0.2
    npm ERR! Found: nodebb-plugin-emoji@5.0.3
    npm ERR! node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emoji
    npm ERR!   peer nodebb-plugin-emoji@"^5.0.0" from nodebb-plugin-emoji-android@4.0.0
    npm ERR!   node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emoji-android
    npm ERR!     nodebb-plugin-emoji-android@"4.0.0" from the root project
    npm ERR!   nodebb-plugin-emoji@"5.0.3" from the root project
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Could not resolve dependency:
    npm ERR! peer nodebb-plugin-emoji@"^4.0.0" from @nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions@1.0.2
    npm ERR! node_modules/@nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions
    npm ERR!   @nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions@"^1.0.2" from the root project
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Conflicting peer dependency: nodebb-plugin-emoji@4.0.6
    npm ERR! node_modules/nodebb-plugin-emoji
    npm ERR!   peer nodebb-plugin-emoji@"^4.0.0" from @nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions@1.0.2
    npm ERR!   node_modules/@nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions
    npm ERR!     @nodebb/nodebb-plugin-reactions@"^1.0.2" from the root project
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! Fix the upstream dependency conflict, or retry
    npm ERR! this command with --force, or --legacy-peer-deps
    npm ERR! to accept an incorrect (and potentially broken) dependency resolution.
    npm ERR! 
    npm ERR! See /root/.npm/eresolve-report.txt for a full report.
    
    npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
    npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2023-01-27T22_02_45_967Z-debug-0.log
    
        at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:419:12)
        at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
        at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1091:16)
        at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:302:5)
        at Process.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
    

    Exemple here for update this plugin must to test :

    npm install nodebb-plugin-tenor-gif@3.0.0
    

    ?

  • @phenomlab

    Ok like pitaj said on nodebb communauty i have test this :

    npm config set legacy-peer-deps true
    

    and the plugins is installed without error on ACP

    Maybe add this on your first topic 😉

  • @DownPW good call. Will get that added.

  • Thanks for the guide, got my v3 environment running. 🙂

  • @dave1904 excellent news. Thanks for the feedback

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