CommunitySolidServer/documentation/markdown/usage/dev-configuration.md

Configuring the CSS as a development server in another project

It can be useful to use the CSS as local server to develop Solid applications against. As an alternative to using CLI arguments, or environment variables, the CSS can be configured in the package.json as follows:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "private": "true",
  "config": {
    "community-solid-server": {
      "port": 3001,
      "loggingLevel": "error"
    }
  },
  "scripts": {
    "dev:pod": "community-solid-server"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@solid/community-server": "^6.0.0"
  }
}

These parameters will then be used when the community-solid-server command is executed as an npm script (as shown in the example above). Or whenever the community-solid-server command is executed in the same folder as the package.json.

Alternatively, the configuration parameters may be placed in a configuration file named .community-solid-server.config.json as follows:

{
  "port": 3001,
  "loggingLevel": "error"
}

The config may also be written in JavaScript with the config as the default export such as the following .community-solid-server.config.js:

module.exports = {
  port: 3001,
  loggingLevel: "error"
};