Web Installer for NodeBB

[psychobunny]

1. git clone
2. npm install
3. node app (in future npm start imo)

Launches step by step web interface for you to create admin account and enter database information

[akhoury]

+1
dont take away terminal access please :) node app --setup={}

[psychobunny]

haha yeah, that'll still be in there.

EDIT: FYI, it's been changed up a bit, we don't take JSON anymore (which was a bit confusing anyways) instead just straight up args that are passed in / from env, see here

EDIT2:

we don't take JSON anymore

That is, after 1.0x, afaik

[psychobunny]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2QjVWELIow

recorded with some potato software

[julianlam]

@akhoury Terminal access is still there, but we're preferring environment variables over serialised JSON string passed into --setup: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/4325/set-up-nodebb-via-environment-variables