Cody App is a single-binary distribution of Sourcegraph that runs on your local machine.

Status: alpha (only for internal use at Sourcegraph)

sg start app

(Or sg start single-program if you want all of Sourcegraph, not just Cody functionality.)

If your are running app on a fresh database instance you also have to perform the following steps:

• After opening the web app you will be directed to /sign-in, NOT the local repo setup step that is shown in production.
• Select to sign up with a new user account (the link following the log in options).
• Give this user account site admin privileges by running psql -h ~/.sourcegraph-psql -U sourcegraph sourcegraph -c 'update users set site_admin=true'

Cody App is in alpha (only for internal use at Sourcegraph).

Check the Cody App release bot in #app (in the Sourcegraph internal Slack) for the latest release information.

To build it locally for all platforms (without releasing, uploading, or publishing it anywhere), run:

VERSION=0.0.0+dev dev/app/release.sh --snapshot

The builds are written to the dist directory.

If you just need a local build for your current platform, run sg start app (as mentioned in the Development section) and then grab the .bin/sourcegraph binary. This binary does not have the web bundle (JavaScript/CSS) embedded into it.

Our CI pipeline runs the ../../dev/app/release.sh script, which uses goreleaser to build for many platforms, package, and publish to the sourcegraph-app-releases Google Cloud Storage bucket.

Insiders builds may be created from non-main branches; they are much more experimental. To create one push your current branch to the special app/insiders branch:

git push -f origin HEAD:app/insiders

Check the build status in Buildkite app/insiders branch builds.

Official releases may only be created from main (or sometimes main-app during a code freeze); to create one push the latest remote branch to the special app/release branch:

git fetch
git push -f origin origin/main:app/release

Check the build status in Buildkite app/release branch builds.