script for instant development mode

.gitignore

@@ -14,5 +14,9 @@ docker-compose.override.yml
 
 # App generated
 .env
+.env.bak
 postgres-data
-greenlight-data
+greenlight-data
+
+.cache/*/**
+!.cache/*/.gitkeep

dev.env

@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+# fixed environment for an working dev setup
+
+DEV_MODE=true
+
+# use meteor dev server for html5
+DEV_HTML5=true
+
+
+
+
+# ====================================
+# ADDITIONS to BigBlueButton
+# ====================================
+# (place a '#' before to disable them)
+
+# HTTPS Proxy
+# fully automated Lets Encrypt certificates
+ENABLE_HTTPS_PROXY=true
+# If your network doesn't allow access to DNS at 8.8.8.8 specify your own resolvers
+#RESOLVER_ADDRESS=x.x.x.x
+
+# coturn (a TURN Server)
+# requires either the abhove HTTPS Proxy to be enabled
+# or TLS certificates to be mounted to container
+ENABLE_COTURN=false
+#COTURN_TLS_CERT_PATH=
+#COTURN_TLS_KEY_PATH=
+
+# Greenlight Frontend
+# https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/greenlight/gl-overview.html
+ENABLE_GREENLIGHT=true
+
+# Enable Webhooks
+# used by some integrations
+ENABLE_WEBHOOKS=true
+
+# Prometheus Exporter
+# serves the bigbluebutton-exporter under following URL:
+# https://yourdomain/bbb-exporter
+ENABLE_PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER=true
+#ENABLE_PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER_OPTIMIZATION=true
+
+# Recording
+# IMPORTANT: this is currently a big privacy issues, because it will
+# record everything which happens in the conference, even when the button
+# suggets, that it does not.
+# https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/issues/9202
+# make sure that you get peoples consent, before they join a room
+ENABLE_RECORDING=true
+#REMOVE_OLD_RECORDING=false
+#RECORDING_MAX_AGE_DAYS=14
+
+# ====================================
+# SECRETS
+# ====================================
+# important! change these to any random values
+SHARED_SECRET=SuperSecret
+ETHERPAD_API_KEY=SuperEtherpadKey
+RAILS_SECRET=SuperRailsSecret_SuperRailsSecret
+POSTGRESQL_SECRET=SuperPostgresSecret
+FSESL_PASSWORD=SuperFreeswitchESLPassword
+
+
+
+# ====================================
+# CONNECTION
+# ====================================
+
+DOMAIN=10.7.7.1
+
+EXTERNAL_IPv4=10.7.7.1
+EXTERNAL_IPv6=
+
+# STUN SERVER
+# stun.freeswitch.org
+STUN_IP=147.182.188.245
+STUN_PORT=3478
+
+# TURN SERVER
+# uncomment and adjust following two lines to add an external TURN server
+#TURN_SERVER=turns:localhost:465?transport=tcp
+#TURN_SECRET=
+
+# Allowed SIP IPs
+# due to high traffic caused by bots, by default the SIP port is blocked.
+# but you can allow access by your providers IP or IP ranges (comma seperated)
+# Hint: if you want to allow requests from every IP, you can use 0.0.0.0/0
+SIP_IP_ALLOWLIST=0.0.0.0/0
+
+
+# ====================================
+# CUSTOMIZATION
+# ====================================
+
+CLIENT_TITLE=BigBlueButton (Development)
+
+# use following lines to replace the default welcome message and footer
+WELCOME_MESSAGE="Welcome to <b>%%CONFNAME%%</b>!<br><br>For help on using BigBlueButton see these (short) <a href='https://www.bigbluebutton.org/html5' target='_blank'><u>tutorial videos</u></a>.<br><br>To join the audio bridge click the speaker button.  Use a headset to avoid causing background noise for others."
+WELCOME_FOOTER="This server is running <a href='https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/'' target='_blank'><u>BigBlueButton</u></a>."
+
+# use following line for an additional SIP dial-in message
+#WELCOME_FOOTER="This server is running <a href='https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/' target='_blank'><u>BigBlueButton</u></a>. <br><br>To join this meeting by phone, dial:<br>  INSERT_YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER_HERE<br>Then enter %%CONFNUM%% as the conference PIN number."
+
+# for a different default presentation, place the pdf file in ./conf/ and
+# adjust the following path
+DEFAULT_PRESENTATION=./mod/nginx/default.pdf
+
+# language of sound announcements
+# options:
+# - en-ca-june - EN Canadian June
+# - en-us-allison - US English Allison
+# - en-us-callie - US English Callie (default)
+# - de-de-daedalus3 - German by Daedalus3 (https://github.com/Daedalus3/freeswitch-german-soundfiles)
+# - es-ar-mario - Spanish/Argentina Mario
+# - fr-ca-june - FR Canadian June
+# - pt-br-karina - Brazilian Portuguese Karina
+# - ru-RU-elena - RU Russian Elena
+# - ru-RU-kirill - RU Russian Kirill
+# - ru-RU-vika - RU Russian Viktoriya
+# - sv-se-jakob - Swedish (Sweden) Jakob
+# - zh-cn-sinmei - Chinese/China Sinmei
+# - zh-hk-sinmei - Chinese/Hong Kong Sinmei
+SOUNDS_LANGUAGE=en-us-callie
+
+# set to false to disable listenOnlyMode
+LISTEN_ONLY_MODE=true
+
+# set to true to disable echo test
+DISABLE_ECHO_TEST=false
+
+# set to true to automatically share webcam
+AUTO_SHARE_WEBCAM=false
+
+# set to true to disable video preview for webcam sharing
+DISABLE_VIDEO_PREVIEW=false
+
+# set to false to disable chat
+CHAT_ENABLED=true
+
+# set to true to start chat closed
+CHAT_START_CLOSED=false
+
+# set to true to disable announcements "You are now (un-)muted"
+DISABLE_SOUND_MUTED=false
+
+# set to true to disable announcement "You are the only person in this conference"
+DISABLE_SOUND_ALONE=false
+
+# maximum count of breakout rooms per meeting
+# Warning: increasing the limit of breakout rooms per meeting
+# can generate excessive overhead to the server. We recommend
+# this value to be kept under 12.
+BREAKOUTROOM_LIMIT=8
+
+# set to false to disable the learning dashboard
+ENABLE_LEARNING_DASHBOARD=true
+
+# ====================================
+# Tuning
+# ====================================
+# Default = 2; Min = 1; Max = 4
+# On powerful systems with high number of meetings you can set values up to 4 to accelerate handling of events
+NUMBER_OF_BACKEND_NODEJS_PROCESSES=1
+
+# Default = 2; Min = 1; Max = 8
+# Set a number between 1 and 4 times the value of NUMBER_OF_BACKEND_NODEJS_PROCESSES where higher number helps with meetings
+# stretching the recommended number of users in BigBlueButton
+NUMBER_OF_FRONTEND_NODEJS_PROCESSES=1
+
+
+# ====================================
+# GREENLIGHT CONFIGURATION
+# ====================================
+
+### SMTP CONFIGURATION
+# Emails are required for the basic features of Greenlight to function.
+# Please refer to your SMTP provider to get the values for the variables below
+#SMTP_SENDER_EMAIL=
+#SMTP_SENDER_NAME=
+#SMTP_SERVER=
+#SMTP_PORT=
+#SMTP_DOMAIN=
+#SMTP_USERNAME=
+#SMTP_PASSWORD=
+#SMTP_AUTH=
+#SMTP_STARTTLS_AUTO=true
+#SMTP_STARTTLS=false
+#SMTP_TLS=false
+#SMTP_SSL_VERIFY=true
+
+### EXTERNAL AUTHENTICATION METHODS
+#
+#OPENID_CONNECT_CLIENT_ID=
+#OPENID_CONNECT_CLIENT_SECRET=
+#OPENID_CONNECT_ISSUER=
+#OPENID_CONNECT_REDIRECT=
+
+# To enable hCaptcha on the user sign up and sign in, define these 2 keys
+#HCAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=
+#HCAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY=
+
+# Set these if you are using a Simple Storage Service (S3)
+# Uncomment S3_ENDPOINT only if you are using a S3 OTHER than Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3.
+#S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
+#S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
+#S3_REGION=
+#S3_BUCKET=
+#S3_ENDPOINT=
+
+# Define the default locale language code (i.e. 'en' for English) from the fallowing list:
+#  [en, ar, fr, es]
+#DEFAULT_LOCALE=en
+

docker-compose.tmpl.yml

@@ -81,6 +81,34 @@ services:
         ipv4_address: 10.7.7.2
 
 
+{{ if isTrue .Env.DEV_HTML5 }}
+  html5-dev:
+    build: 
+      context: mod/html5
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.dev
+      args:
+        BBB_BUILD_TAG: bbb27-2023-06-13-java17
+    user: ${BBB_DOCKER_USER}
+    restart: unless-stopped
+    depends_on:
+      - redis
+      - mongodb
+      - etherpad
+    volumes:
+      - ./repos/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-html5:/app/:rw
+      - ./.cache/npm:/tmp/.npm:rw
+      - ./.cache/meteor:/tmp/.meteor:rw
+      - ./mod/html5/bbb-html5.yml:/tmp/bbb-html5.yml.tmpl
+    environment:
+      <<: *html5backend-env
+      HOME: /tmp
+      BBB_HTML5_ROLE: ""
+    networks:
+      bbb-net:
+        ipv4_address: 10.7.7.200
+
+
+{{ else }}
 {{ range $i := loop 0 (atoi .Env.NUMBER_OF_BACKEND_NODEJS_PROCESSES) }}
   html5-backend-{{ add $i 1 }}:
     <<: *html5backend
@@ -105,6 +133,8 @@ services:
         ipv4_address: 10.7.7.{{ add 200 $i }}
 {{end}}
 
+{{ end }}
+
 
   freeswitch:
     container_name: bbb-freeswitch
@@ -160,11 +190,20 @@ services:
     depends_on:
       - etherpad
       - webrtc-sfu
+      {{ if isTrue .Env.DEV_HTML5 }}
+      - html5-dev
+      {{ else }}
       - html5-backend-1
+      {{ end }}
     volumes:
       - bigbluebutton:/var/bigbluebutton
       - html5-static:/html5-static:ro
       - ${DEFAULT_PRESENTATION:-/dev/null}:/www/default.pdf
+
+      {{ if isTrue .Env.DEV_HTML5 }}
+      # don't let nginx directly serve static files
+      - ./mod/nginx/bbb-html5.dev.nginx:/etc/nginx/bbb/bbb-html5.nginx:ro
+      {{ end }}
     network_mode: host
     extra_hosts:
       - "host.docker.internal:10.7.7.1"

docs/development.md

@@ -1,50 +1,29 @@
 # bbb-docker Development
 
 ## Basics
-normally people start BBB with the pre-built docker images, but for developing you need to build them by yourself. For that you need to ensure that the submodules are also checked out:
+normally people start BBB with the pre-built docker images, but for developing you need to build them by yourself. For that you need to ensure that the submodules are also checked out
 
 ```sh
-$ git submodule update --init
+$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/bigbluebutton/docker.git bbb-dev
+$ cd bbb-dev
 ```
 
-
 ## Running
-you can run bbb-docker locally without any certificate issues with following `.env` configurations:
+you can now run bbb-docker locally by simply starting
 
-```
-DEV_MODE=true
-
-ENABLE_HTTPS_PROXY=true
-#ENABLE_COTURN=true
-#ENABLE_GREENLIGHT=true
-#ENABLE_WEBHOOKS=true
-#ENABLE_PROMETHEUS_EXPORTER=true
-#ENABLE_RECORDING=true
-
-DOMAIN=10.7.7.1
-EXTERNAL_IPv4=10.7.7.1
-STUN_IP=216.93.246.18
-STUN_PORT=3478
-TURN_SERVER=turns:localhost:5349?transport=tcp
-
-TURN_SECRET=SuperTurnSecret
-SHARED_SECRET=SuperSecret
-ETHERPAD_API_KEY=SuperEtherpadKey
-RAILS_SECRET=SuperRailsSecret_SuperRailsSecret
-
-# ====================================
-# CUSTOMIZATION
-# ====================================
-
-[... add rest of sample.env here ...]
+```sh
+$ ./scripts/dev
 ```
 
-- regenerate `docker-compose.yml` \
+### Hints
+- the html5 component will watch and automatically reload on any changes 🚀
+- if you change anything in the other components, you need to
+  * manually rebuilt it \
+    `$ docker compose build CONTAINERNAME`
+  * restart it \
+    `$ docker compose up -d CONTAINERNAME`
+- if you change any variable in .env, always run following to rebuild the `docker-compose.yml``
   `$ ./scripts/generate-compose`
-- build the images \
-  `$ docker compose build`
-- you can than start it with \
-  `$ docker compose up -d`
 - view the logs with \
   `$ docker compose logs -f`
 - and access the API via \
@@ -55,16 +34,6 @@ RAILS_SECRET=SuperRailsSecret_SuperRailsSecret
 ## Notes
 - Due to the self signed ssl certificate it is currently not possible to notify greenlight about recordings in dev mode
 
-## Changes
-- After doing some changes you usually must...
-  - recreate `docker-compose.yml` \
-    `$ ./scripts/generate-compose`
-  * rebuild the image(s): \
-    `$ docker compose build [containername]`
-  * restart changes image(s): \
-    `$ docker compose up -d`
-
-
 ## How to do create a new update for a newer BBB release?
 This always consists out of following steps
 1. **Get an understanding about changes that happened and find out what changes to bbb-docker that require.** \

mod/html5/Dockerfile

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ FROM bigbluebutton/bbb-build:$BBB_BUILD_TAG AS builder
 # RUN groupadd -g 2000 meteor && useradd -m -u 2001 -g meteor meteor
 # USER meteor
 
-ARG TAG_HTML5
-
 COPY --from=source ./ /source
 RUN cd /source && meteor npm ci --production \
     && METEOR_DISABLE_OPTIMISTIC_CACHING=1 meteor build --architecture os.linux.x86_64 --allow-superuser  --directory /app \
@@ -17,6 +15,7 @@ RUN cd /app/bundle/programs/server \
 RUN mkdir -p /app/bundle/programs/web.browser/app/files && \
     cp /app/bundle/programs/server/npm/node_modules/@fontsource/*/files/*.woff* /app/bundle/programs/web.browser/app/files/
 
+ARG TAG_BBB
 RUN sed -i "s/VERSION/$TAG_BBB/" /app/bundle/programs/web.browser/head.html \
     && find /app/bundle/programs/web.browser -name '*.js' -exec gzip -k -f -9 '{}' \; \
     && find /app/bundle/programs/web.browser -name '*.css' -exec gzip -k -f -9 '{}' \; \

mod/html5/Dockerfile.dev

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+ARG BBB_BUILD_TAG
+FROM bigbluebutton/bbb-build:$BBB_BUILD_TAG AS builder
+
+
+RUN curl https://install.meteor.com/\?release\=2.13 | sh
+
+
+COPY --from=alangecker/bbb-docker-base-java /usr/local/bin/dockerize /usr/local/bin/dockerize
+
+# make /root/.meteor accessible for user
+RUN chmod 777 /root /root/.meteor
+
+COPY entrypoint.dev.sh /entrypoint.dev.sh
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.dev.sh"]
+

mod/html5/bbb-html5.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 public:
   app:
-    html5ClientBuild: {{ .Env.TAG_HTML5 }}
-    bbbServerVersion: {{ .Env.TAG_HTML5 }}-docker
+    html5ClientBuild: {{ .Env.TAG_BBB }}
+    bbbServerVersion: {{ .Env.TAG_BBB }}-docker
     listenOnlyMode: {{ .Env.LISTEN_ONLY_MODE }}
     skipCheck: {{ .Env.DISABLE_ECHO_TEST }}
     clientTitle: {{ .Env.CLIENT_TITLE }}

mod/html5/entrypoint.dev.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+# use /tmp as home dir as writeable directory for whatever UID we get
+export HOME=/tmp
+
+
+export MONGO_OPLOG_URL=mongodb://10.7.7.6/local
+export MONGO_URL=mongodb://10.7.7.6/meteor
+export ROOT_URL=http://127.0.0.1/html5client
+export BIND_IP=0.0.0.0
+export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+export BBB_HTML5_LOCAL_SETTINGS=/tmp/bbb-html5.yml
+
+echo "DEV_MODE=true, disable TLS certificate rejecting"
+export NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0
+
+
+if [ ! -f "/tmp/.meteor/copy-done" ]; then
+    echo "# copying over .meteor from docker image... (this might take some minutes)"
+    cp -a /root/.meteor/* /tmp/.meteor
+    touch /tmp/.meteor/copy-done
+fi
+
+cd /app
+echo "# meteor npm install"
+meteor npm install
+
+echo "# npm start"
+dockerize \
+    -template /tmp/bbb-html5.yml.tmpl:/tmp/bbb-html5.yml \
+    npm start

mod/nginx/bbb-html5.dev.nginx

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+location /html5client {
+  proxy_pass http://10.7.7.200:4100; # use for production
+  proxy_http_version 1.1;
+  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
+  proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
+}

scripts/dev

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
+. scripts/functions.sh
+
+if [ -f ".env" ]; then
+    load_env
+    if [[ "$DEV_MODE" == "" ]]; then
+        echo "Error: .env is not configured as a development environment"
+        echo ""
+        read -r -p "Should .env be automatically overwritten with a predefined .env? [Y/n]" response
+        response=${response,,} # tolower
+        if [[ $response =~ ^(y| ) ]] || [[ -z $response ]]; then
+            cp .env .env.bak
+            cp dev.env .env
+        else
+            echo "we can't continue with a .env file configured as a development environment"
+            exit 1
+        fi
+    fi
+else
+    echo "# creating a .env for the dev setup"
+    cp dev.env .env
+fi
+
+# to avoid any file permission issues we want to run some containers with the same
+# UID and GID as the current user
+export BBB_DOCKER_USER="$(id -u):$(id -g)"
+
+# also add it to ~/.zshrc and/or ~/.bashrc so
+# that people can also use commands like `docker compose up`
+# without that variable being missing
+function add_permanent_env {
+    STR='export BBB_DOCKER_USER="$(id -u):$(id -g)"'
+    if [ -z "$(grep "$STR" "$1")" ]; then
+        echo "append"
+        echo "" >> $1
+        echo "# following line got added by bbb-docker" >> $1
+        echo "$STR" >> $1 
+    fi
+}
+if [ -f "$(realpath ~/.zshrc)" ]; then
+    add_permanent_env "$(realpath ~/.zshrc)"
+fi
+if [ -f "$(realpath ~/.bashrc)" ]; then
+    add_permanent_env "$(realpath ~/.bashrc)"
+fi
+
+
+echo ""
+echo "# ensure submodules are checked out"
+ensure_submodules
+
+echo ""
+echo "# recreating docker-compose.yml"
+./scripts/generate-compose
+
+echo ""
+echo "# rebuilding images"
+docker compose build
+
+
+echo ""
+echo "============================================"
+echo "BBB Development server"
+echo "============================================"
+echo "API Mate: https://mconf.github.io/api-mate/#server=https://10.7.7.1/bigbluebutton/api&sharedSecret=SuperSecret"
+echo "Greenlight: https://10.7.7.1/"
+echo "Check containers:     docker-compose ps"
+echo "Rebuilding container: docker-compose up --build CONTAINERNAME"
+echo "============================================"
+
+sleep 1
+
+docker compose up

scripts/functions.sh

@@ -1,15 +1,5 @@
 function load_env {
-    FILE=.env
-    if [ "$BBB_DOCKER_DEV" = "1" ]; then
-        FILE=dev.env
-    else
-        FILE=.env
-    fi
-
-    if [ -f $FILE ]
-    then
-        export $(cat $FILE | sed 's/#.*//g' | grep -v "WELCOME_FOOTER" | grep -v "WELCOME_MESSAGE" | grep -v "CLIENT_TITLE" | xargs)
-    fi
+    export $(cat .env | sed 's/#.*//g' | grep -v "WELCOME_FOOTER" | grep -v "WELCOME_MESSAGE" | grep -v "CLIENT_TITLE" | xargs)
 }
 
 function ensure_submodules {

scripts/generate-compose

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ docker run  \
     -e COMMIT_ETHERPAD_SKIN=$(get_tag repos/bbb-etherpad-skin) \
     -e COMMIT_ETHERPAD_PLUGIN=$(get_tag repos/bbb-etherpad-plugin) \
     -e DEV_MODE=${DEV_MODE:-false} \
+    -e DEV_HTML5=${DEV_HTML5:-false} \
     -e EXTERNAL_IPv6=${EXTERNAL_IPv6:-} \
     -e ENABLE_RECORDING=${ENABLE_RECORDING:-false} \
     -e ENABLE_HTTPS_PROXY=${ENABLE_HTTPS_PROXY:-false} \

scripts/upgrade-and-build

@@ -14,11 +14,6 @@ then
     exit
 
 else
-
-    echo ""
-    echo "# pull newest git submodules"
-    ./scripts/checkout-submodules
-
     echo ""
     echo "# recreate docker-compose.yml"
     ./scripts/generate-compose