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2.3 Setting up Hasura Local Development

The Hasura Local Development setup's latest instructions are available here. The latest instructions have been simplified. The instructions below had helped me set the local development on Windows earlier:
  • Open Command Prompt. Type minikube start. The first time you type in this command, the minikube ISO will download. After the download and install inside VirtualBox, you get a message saying that kubectl is now configured to use the cluster. Something like this:
Fig 1. First time starting minikube
  • Type minikube ip to get your local cluster's ip address. This will help you in accessing the kubernetes cluster via Windows.
  • Go to https://beta.hasura.io/settings to get your API token and open your Command Prompt and type curl -H 'Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>' -d '{\"ipaddr\": "\MINIKUBE_IP\"}' https://cloud.beta.hasura.io/v1/localdev , where <API_TOKEN> is replaced by the token you got earlier and MINIKUBE_IP is the ip you obtained from the same command earlier. You can even split the long command into small chunks using "^" after each line as shown below:

The response of the above command must be a url through which you will be access your hasura project via your browser.
  • Edit project-conf.yaml -> data -> project -> domains to the response url obtained in the above step.
  • Edit controller-configmap.yaml -> data -> controller-conf.json -> provider -> Local -> gatewayIP to the minikube ip obtained.
  • Now run the following commands one by one:
                           








  • Now around 1-1.5GB of data will be downloaded for setting up the local environment and the status can be checked via the command kubectl -n hasura get pods. Once all the services are in running state, the setup is done and you can start working on your project locally. To access your console, you need to go to console.<your_curl_command_response_url>. Eg. console.c100.hasura.me.

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