A valid Gruntfile could not be found. about clsi HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi! I think the grunt install instruction is now obsolete, as we removed Grunt a while ago.
If you skip that step, does the CLSI just work?

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no, it doesn't. it works fine on docker but not if I use the readme instructions.
this is what I tried:

• git clone https://github.com/overleaf/clsi.git

• npm install

• npm start

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Does it work if you run node app.js (after the npm install)?

I think the Readme for this project is very out of date, and the bottom line of the Dockerfile shows how we actually start this application in production: https://github.com/overleaf/clsi/blob/master/Dockerfile#L23

In general we only support the docker-based releases of overleaf, and running the applications directly from these git repositories is a kind of "if it works then great" affair. We will try to clean up the documentation so it actually works though :)

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Hello,

This is what I have done to install CLSI on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,

sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra
sudo apt install latexmk
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
sudo apt autoremove
nodejs --version
npm --version
git clone https://github.com/overleaf/clsi.git
cd clsi
npm install
npm audit fix
npm start

The CLSI service starts OK.

root@localhost:/tmp# netstat -tupln
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3013 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 16606/node
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3048 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 16606/node
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3049 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

Hope this information is helpful.

-John

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Excellent! I'm glad it's working now. We'll try to update the documentation soon.

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