This tool has already being merged upstream to the rotki repo, and any changes will happen there.

The proxy's purpose is to provide an easy way to develop the frontend in parallel with the backend, and provide an easy way to test the premium features.

The proxy will automatically pass any requests to the real backend, unless a mocked endpoint implementation exists.

All mock endpoint implementations should be before:

server.use(createProxyMiddleware({ target: backend }));

Otherwise the real backend will handle the requests.

You can configure the proxy, with the following environment variables:

• PORT The port where the proxy listens for incoming connections. (Default: 4243)
• BACKEND The url of the real backend. (Default: http://localhost:4242)
• PREMIUM_COMPONENT_DIR The premium components directory. (Optional)

After cloning the proxy, you need to go to its directory and run the following commands:

npm ci
npm run serve

In order to use rotki with this development proxy you need to create a .env.development.local environment file. Put the file in the frontend directory of rotki. (electron-app).

The file must contain the following entry:

VUE_APP_BACKEND_URL=http://localhost:4243

Adjust accordingly to if you used a custom port for the proxy.

After that you can start rotki via:

npm run electron:serve

To serve the premium components using the proxy, you must the PREMIUM_COMPONENT_DIR environment variable. The variable should contain the directory where you store your premium components source code. You must have the variable set before starting the proxy, otherwise the proxy will serve the production components instead.

Before accessing the premium components via the proxy, you must first build the bundle. In order to build the bundle you need to go to the premium components directory and run the following.

yarn build:bundle