Parca UI

This is a Next.js project that utilizes the static HTML export feature of Next.js

Development

The Next.js app requires an environment variable for the API endpoint so as to talk to the Parca backend. Create a file named .env.local in packages/app/web/ to add the environment variable for the API endpoint.

NEXT_PUBLIC_API_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:7070

Then, start the Parca backend by running the command below. The --cors-allowed-origins='*' flag allows for enabling CORS headers on Parca.

./bin/parca --cors-allowed-origins='*'

Now the Parca backend will be running and available at localhost:7070.

Finally, run the development server for the Next.js app:

yarn workspace @parca/web dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

You can start editing the UI by modifying any of the components in the ui/packages/app/web directory. The app auto-updates as you edit the files.

Build

To build the UI, you can use Makefile at the root of the project to run the following commands.

Run the following command to generate static files:

make ui # yarn install && yarn export

We use Next.js static HTML export and embed artifacts into the final binary distribution. See https://pkg.go.dev/embed for further details.

Run following to build the parca binary with embedded assets.

make build

Generate Static files

Run following to generate static assets separately:

npm run export
# or
yarn export

Development workflow

Before make sure all the tools you need are installed. The Linux users can simply run //env.sh.

You can set up a cluster and all else you need by simply running:

make dev/up

For a simple local development setup we use Tilt.

tilt up