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Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago

This is a guide on installing JSbin on FreeBSD. 

 *NOTE*: -After After working on getting JSbin to install on FreeBSD for many hours, I was unable to get it working.- 
 *UPDATE*: I found that JSbin works on node v0.10, the default nodejs version for FreeBSD is v0.12. Once I installed the older version JSbin installed correctly. 

 working.  

 h2. Prepare the system 

 * Make sure the system is up to date: 
 <pre> 
 pkg update && pkg upgrade 
 </pre> 

 * Install portmaster 
 <pre> 
 pkg install portmaster 
 pkg2ng 
 </pre> 

 h2. Install JSbin with npm 

 * Install JSbin using npm: 
 <pre> 
 npm install -g --sqlite=/usr/local jsbin 
 </pre> 

 * Create a new config file and edit it as necessary: 
 <pre> 
 cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/jsbin 
 cp config.default.json config.local.json 
 </pre> 

 * Test JSbin in development mode: 
 <pre> 
 jsbin 
 </pre> 

 * Go to http://localhost:3000 in a web browser 

 h2. Install JSbin from GitHub 

 * Create a working source directory: 
 <pre> 
 mkdir /usr/local/src && cd /usr/local/src 
 </pre> 

 * Clone JSbin from GitHub: 
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 git clone https://github.com/remy/jsbin.git 
 cd jsbin 
 </pre> 

 * Install the latest sqlite3 master branch: 
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 npm install -g https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3/tarball/master --sqlite=/usr/local 
 </pre> 

 * Install node-gyp globally: 
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 npm install node-gyp -g 
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 * Install grunt-cli globally using npm: 
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 npm install -g grunt-cli 
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 * Edit the package.json file: 
 <pre> 
 vi package.json 
 </pre> 
 #* Then change the sqlite3 version: 
 <pre> 
 "sqlite3": "~3.0.10", 
 </pre> 
 #* And add the @chai@ package to the  
 <pre> 
 "devDependencies": { 
   "grunt": "~0.4.1", 
   "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0", 
   "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.1.1", 
   "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.2", 
   "should": "~1.2.2", 
   "sinon": "~1.7.3", 
   "grunt-cli": "~0.1.11", 
   "mocha-casperjs": "~0.5.0", 
   "hbs-utils": "0.0.3", 
   "mocha": "~1.21.4", 
   "chai": "~1.10" 
 }, 
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 * Then install the developer dependencies: 
 <pre> 
 npm install -g --sqlite=/usr/local --dev 
 </pre> 

 h2. Resources 

 * https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin/blob/master/docs/running-your-own-jsbin.md

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