Re: [noVNC] How to build & run noVNC in production?

[Jan Keromnes]

Dear noVNC community,

As a quick update, https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/818 now has steps that can be used to build and run a production noVNC server, which could be summarized as:

    git clone https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/

    cd noVNC

    npm update

    node ./utils/use_require.js --as commonjs --with-app

    bash ./utils/launch.sh --vnc localhost:5900 --listen 8088 --web ./build/

And then just navigate to http://localhost:5900/vnc.html to use your production-ready build of noVNC.

Thanks a lot to Solly Ross and Pierre Ossman for the help!

Best,

Jan

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Jan Keromnes <ja...@linux.com> wrote:

Dear noVNC community,

Thanks a lot for an amazing tool! We use it on https://janitor.technology to allow anyone to easily hack on large projects like Firefox, Servo, Thunderbird, Chromium and others.

Unfortunately, noVNC stopped working for our Chrome users a while back (related to the introduction of Babel around commit [0], see GitHub issue [1]). We believe that the main problem is that we're using noVNC's Babel in production, while we should be serving a compiled production-grade noVNC app instead as suggested by Solly Ross.

Today, we install noVNC simply by cloning the repository [2], calling launch.sh [3], and then serving /vnc_auto.html (which was recently renamed to /vnc_lite.html).

Instead, we would like to build a production-grade noVNC front-end, e.g. with `node ./utils/use_require.js --as commonjs`, but we don't know how to properly serve the transpiled files:

- What is the best way to serve a /vnc.html or /vnc_lite.html that uses the transpiled files in /lib?

- Can one of the scripts in /utils do this for us?

- Do we need to hack a special production-ready "/lib/vnc.html"?

Bonus question (unrelated): Is there already a good noVNC integration/plugin for Cloud9 IDE? [4]

Many thanks!

Jan

[0] https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/commit/399fa2ee2da4b7a766e7b95b56436e79f0a42a73

[1] https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/818

[2] https://github.com/JanitorTechnology/dockerfiles/blob/cefd6492ae95f47a2d95e6368ea7c56740342895/ubuntu-dev/ubuntu-dev.dockerfile#L171-L173

[3] https://github.com/JanitorTechnology/dockerfiles/blob/cefd6492ae95f47a2d95e6368ea7c56740342895/ubuntu-dev/supervisord.conf#L18-L20

[4] https://c9.io

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