Installation

Prerequisites

• MongoDB (version 5.0 or above) instance with user allowed to create and modify one database

Docker installation

• Docker

Standalone installation

• node.js (version 21 or above)

• npm

Installation

Docker

Tower is aimed to be released as a cloud native project, that's why the only prebuilt product can be found as a docker image. In case you'd like to build it on your own, please visit the standalone installation section.

Standalone

Download the github repository on your local computer, then navigate to the ui folder and execute the npm install command.

cd ui
npm install

This will install all the dependencies for the user interface part of Tower.

Now go back to the Tower root folder and enter the backend directory. You need to install the dependencies here using npm as well.

cd ../backend
npm install

And now you need to build the project. Go back to the Tower root folder again, and run the ui and backend installation scripts.

npm run build:ui
npm run build:backend

Great, now when the application is built already, we need to copy the ui version to backend, so that they may work together as one application.

mkdir -p backend/client
cp -R ui/dist/spa/* backend/client/

After this is done, we need to move the configuration from template to correct file.

mv backend/.env_template backend/.env

And we're done. After finishing the configuration you can start Tower using following script

cd backend
npm run start:prod